[Gibbons, Phebe Earl]. "Pennsylvania Dutch" and other Essays. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1872. First Edition. [10847]
Publisher's green pebble cloth, bright gilt titles and device, 7 1/4 x 5 inches, 207 clean pp. plus publisher's catalogue. Shaken in the center, with nothing detached. Fair. Hardcover.
The author's twenty years of living in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, gave ample opportunity to observe the ways the Pennsylvania Dutch. The first essay is a revision of one by the same title published in the Atlantic Monthly for 1869. The rest of the essays are new material.
They are "Pennsylvania Dutch" (properly German): Language, Religion, History of the Sect, Politics, Festivals, Weddings, Quiltings, Farming, Farmer's Wives, Holidays, Public Schools, Manners and Customs;
An Amish Meeting;
Swiss Exiles;
The Dunker Love-Feast;
Ephrata;
A Friend;
Cousin Jemima.
Attributed to Phebe Hussey Earle Gibbons (1821-1893), b. & d. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was educated in "select schools" in Massachusetts, and became master of several languages, teaching at a French school in Philadelphia and translated several works from the French and from Greek into English. She was married to Dr. Joseph Gibbons of Lancaster County, Pa., in 1845.
Mrs. Gibbons contributed to several journals, and "in 1872 she published a small volume, entitled 'Pennsylvania Dutch,' a portion of which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly." - quotations from findagrave online.
