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GOOD NIGHT STORIES:
FOR THE KINDERGARTEN AND THE HOME
WRITTEN BY MRS. FRANK SITTIG
ILLUSTRATED BY W.W. LYON & H.L. FURMAN
NOURSE PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT 1908
PLATT & PECK
152 PAGES
HARDCOVER
SPINE AND BINDING ARE GOOD
FIRST PAGE HAS PRICE AND
CHILD'S SPELLING practice
SEPIA DRAWINGS
AND COLOR PLATES
JESSIE IN THE GARDEN
BROWSER KNEW THE SIGNAL
HE WAS FAST ASLEEP
"LAWS ME!"
QUICKLY HE HURRIED DOWN THE PATH
"ONE" CRIED THE OYSTER, "2,3, GO"
VEGETABLES WALKING HAND IN HAND
DEAR ME, SAID SOLOMON
THEN CAME BUFO HOP HOPPING UP...
WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA
1914 - 1915
ISABEL W. SITTIG ( MRS. FRANK SITTIG)
68 Montague St. Brooklyn, NY
Born Philadelphia, PA 1863; dau. Joseph and Christina (wallace) Wilson; ed. Bayone N.J. private schools; m. Bayone NJ 1883... Founder and president for 22 years of the Sittig Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society for destitute children of Brooklyn. favors woman suffrage. Has contributed various articles to New York and Brooklyn newspapers. Author of Pansy Stories and book: Good Night Stories, for children. Christian Scientist. Recreations: music, drama, walking, Charter member Women's Press Club; president The Quiet Evenein club, Inventor of six patents for women's apparel.
Lena Wilson was born in 1855, the daughter of Joseph and Christiana Vandervort Wilson. Her father was a literary critic and editor. She never went to school, and was completely home taught by her father at their home in Bayonne, N.J., where she received a prodigious education. In 1877, she married Frank Sittig, a very successful wholesale grocer, and they moved to Brooklyn in 1884, moving into a brownstone at 378 Jefferson Avenue, between Tompkins and Throop. They soon were regulars in Brooklyn’s social circles and clubs. Frank Sittig joined the Montauk, Union League and Lincoln clubs, while Lena was very active in theater, music and literary circles. A writer of children’s stories since her childhood, Lena was a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. She was also an accomplished musician, and counted as friends many of the most famous actors and musicians in New York. They opened their home at 378 Jefferson often, hosting concerts, literary evenings and musicales, many of which were reported on in the Brooklyn Eagle. In 1893, she co-hosted a dance with Mrs. Montrose Morris, who lived on the next block. That same year, she founded the first Women’s Press Club, for women in the newspaper field.
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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/12/mrs-sittigs-christmas/
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FYI
Literature literally "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter) as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary, or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much of, if not all, the world texts can be oral as well and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and folktale.
Nations can have literatures, as can corporations, philosophical schools or historical periods. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a nation, for example, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The Hebrew Bible, Persian Shahnama, the Indian Mahabharata, Ramayana and Thirukural, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Constitution of the United States, all fall within this definition of a kind of literature.
More generally, one can equate a literature with a collection of stories, poems, and plays that revolve around a particular topic. In this case, the stories, poems and plays may or may not have nationalistic implications. The Western Canon forms one such literature.
The word "literature" has different meanings depending on who is using it and in what context. It could be applied broadly to mean any symbolic record, encompassing everything from images and sculptures to letters. In a more narrow sense the term could mean only text composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic written language (Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example). An even more narrow interpretation is that text have a physical form, such as on paper or some other portable form, to the exclusion of inscriptions or digital media. The Muslim scientist and philosopher Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq defined Literature as follows: "Literature is the garment which one puts on what he says or writes so that it may appear more attractive."
Furthermore, people may perceive a difference between "literature" and some popular forms of written work. The terms "literary fiction" and "literary merit" often serve to distinguish between individual works. For example, almost all literate people perceive the works of Charles Dickens as "literature," whereas some critics[citation needed] look down on the works of Jeffrey Archer as unworthy of inclusion under the general heading of "English literature." Critics may exclude works from the classification "literature," for example, on the grounds of a poor standard of grammar and syntax, of an unbelievable or disjointed story-line, or of inconsistent or unconvincing characters. Genre fiction (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature."
Frequently, the texts that make up literature crossed over these boundaries. Illustrated stories, hypertexts, cave paintings and inscribed monuments have all at one time or another pushed the boundaries of "literature."
Different historical periods have emphasized various characteristics of literature. Early works often had an overt or covert religious or didactic purpose. Moralizing or prescriptive literature stems from such sources. The exotic nature of romance flourished from the Middle Ages onwards, whereas the Age of Reason manufactured nationalistic epics and philosophical tracts. Romanticism emphasized the popular folk literature and emotive involvement, but gave way in the 19th-century West to a phase of realism and naturalism, investigations into what is real. The 20th century brought demands for symbolism or psychological insight in the delineation and development of character.
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