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Polly Oliver's Problem: A Story for Girls (Classic Reprint)
Polly Oliver's Problem A Story for Girls - Classic Reprint Author:Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin Excerpt from Polly Oliver's Problem: A Story for Girls — It is an advantage for an author to have known many places and different sorts of people, though the most vivid impressions are commonly those received in childhood and youth. Mrs. Wiggin, as she is known in literature, was Kate Douglas Smith; she was born in Philadelphia, and spent her you... more »ng womanhood in California, but when a very young child she removed to Hollis in the State of Maine, and since her maturity has usually made her summer home there; her earliest recollections thus belong to the place, and she draws inspiration for her character and scene painting very largely from this New England neighborhood.
Hollis is a quiet, secluded place, a picturesque but almost deserted village - if the few house so widely scattered can be termed a village - located among the undulating hills that lie along the lower reaches of the Saco River.
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