Jane and Her Family - Elizabeth Lang

Jane and Her Family - By Elizabeth Lang 1895

T. Nelson & Sons 1895. Hardback with no dust jacket in fair/ good condition - some light marking/ fading to boards/ spine and bumping to corner edges/ top and bottom of spine. Some light damage to front hinge. Pages are lightly marked with some foxing/ browning to end papers. Binding is good throughout. There is a Sunday School prize dedication in ink dated 1896 on inside front board.

An improving story for little girls written by Elizabeth Lang and published by Nelson and Sons in 1895. Jane lives with her mother and father and lots of servants including her beloved nursery maid Marianne. She spends her days inventing games to play with her dolls including an ugly china doll she names Butterlip and her boy doll Willie. She makes a new friend when Malcom comes to stay and she is always very kind and helpful to everyone, especially poor children who live in garrets. This touching story was presented as the first prize for “Reliability “ at a Sunday School in 1896 and must have been cherished by the recipient.