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Gwendoline; or, Halcots and Halcombes

Giberne, Agnes, 1845-1939, American Sunday-School Union · 1885 · Philadelphia [etc.] The American Sunday-school Union · 5 pictures

Gwendoline; or, Halcots and Halcombes is a Victorian children's story published in 1885 in Philadelphia by the American Sunday-School Union, written by Agnes Giberne. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings with fine hatched shading, showing well-dressed women in period costume, a sickroom scene, a seated lady with a lace cap, and a young woman by the sea, offering a designer clear models for nineteenth-century dress, interiors and quiet domestic drama in hatched line work.

Children's stories, American

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