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The Old Peabody Pew

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Book Overview: 

A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ncluding ten of school-teaching, had done so little to mar its serenity.  “The lily story is as true as the gospel!” she exclaimed, “and I can see how one thing has led you to another in making the church comfortable.  But my husband says that two coats of paint on the pews would cost a considerable sum.”

“How about cleaning them?  I don’t believe they’ve had a good hard washing since the flood.”  The suggestion came from Deacon Miller’s wife to the president.

“They can’t even be scrubbed for less than fifteen or twenty dollars, for I thought of that and asked Mrs. Simpson yesterday, and she said twenty cents a pew was the cheapest she could do it for.”

“We’ve done everything else,” said Nancy Wentworth, with a twitch of her thread; “why don’t we scrub the pews?  There’s nothing in the orthodox creed to forbid, is there?&. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a sweet but very short Christmas romance story that takes place in a small town. The church members are busy laying out new red carpet in the church. And each pew is named after an old or new family, which I found interesting .

Nancy, an older single woman in the church, gets a love letter f

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3.5 stars
I enjoyed this sweet story. While there wasn't much in the way of excitement or action (besides cleaning the church), it was just right for a Christmas read. And I loved the ending.

When the Dorcas Society of the Tory Hill Meeting House - a Ladies Aid Society devoted to the upkeep and improvement of that historic church - decide to clean and decorate (as much as they are able) the pews in their beloved house of worship for the Christmas holiday, each member agrees to take charg

A short, old-fashioned romance Christmas story.

Nancy and the Dorcas Society are cleaning and readying the church for Christmas. Through the women’s chatter, we learn of the Peabody family and a love that has waited long in hope.

A sweet story.

Cleanliness: nothing to note.

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I remember as a small (but literate) child, examining books in my aunt's bookshelf and being told "Oh, you don't want that, that's just The Old Peabody Pew." (Of course as a seven-year-old I thought this was a hilarious title!) Recently, I realized that this tale fit into the category of Christmas s

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