Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
| Year of Publication |
1944
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
200 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Helen Boyd Higgins Tertiary Author: Clotilde Embree Funk |
| Publisher |
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
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| City |
Indianapolis
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| Abstract |
A novelized biography of Stephen Foster, the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The novel focuses on Foster's Lawrenceville boyhood, his minstrel shows, and how he published his first song at 18.
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| Notes |
North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
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| Author Biography |
Helen Boyd Higgins (1892-1971) wrote many books for children about well-known Americans. Clotilde Embree Funk (1893-1991), born in Princeton, Indiana and educated at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, illustrated more than 60 children’s books.
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| Time |
1820s-60s
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