Queens of Literature card game, 1986.
Dates
- Creation: 1886-2022
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research, with the exception of objects that have been digitized, which are closed.
Extent
464 objectsImmediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired from aGaterhin', June 2004 (2004-M58).
Physical Facet
32 white rectangular cards with blank backs. Fronts of eight cards feature tinted black and white portraits of Felicia Hemans, Jean Ingelow, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Celia Thaxter, Alice & Phoebe Cary, Isabella M. Alden, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning with their signatures and titles of three works by author. Remaining cards feature image of nude Grecian woman draped in cloth from waist down seated on pedestal in front of book while holding quill and laurel branch with cherub holding laurel garland behind book. Each card features the title of a literary work on top and the author's name and titles of two other literary works by the author underneath. Title cards feature the following authors and titles: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Hedged In, The Gates Ajar, The Story of Avis; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Pearl of Orrs Island, Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories; Lucy Larcom, Breathings of the Better Life, Wild Roses of Cape Ann, An Idyl of Work; Adaline D.T. Whitney, Faith Gartney's Girlhood, A Summer in Leslie Goldwaite's Life, Real Folks; Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette; Mary N. Murfree, In the Tennessee Mountains, Down the Ravine, The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain; Sarah Orne Jewett, Deephaven, A Country Doctor, A Marsh Island; Mary Ann Evans, Adam Bede, Romola, Daniel Deronda. Game instruction sheet included. Portrait cards and title cards are from two separate games. In lithographed box featuring image of Sarah Orne Jewett and multicolored text, "Queens of Literature, Popular Edition." Small black text in lower right corner reads, "Copyrighted 1886 by McLoughlin Bros." Inside of box lid stamped "Annie G. Rihards."
Dimensions
4.5 x 6 x 1 inches.
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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