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Penelope's English Experiences
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful sketches of a West-end ball, portraits of domestic originals, etc., characterized by humorous trifling and droll exaggeration of English traits. By the author Mother Carey's Chickens, A Cathedral Courtship, etc.
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful sketches of a West-end ball, portraits of domestic originals, etc., characterized by humorous trifling and droll exaggeration of English traits. By the author Mother Carey's Chickens, A Cathedral Courtship, etc.
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Community Reviews
Really hilarious, introspective story of American women living abroad in the Victorian era. I enjoyed listening to this on "Audiobooks" app.
This was a charming little book about three American women and their experiences in the UK. It was delightful, and I can't believe it's not more widely known.
Pretty light reading but I do love her turn of phrase.
Pleasant and mildly humorous account of three young American women visiting England in the 1890s. There are some amusing incidents, I particularly liked the part where the narrator, Penelope, staying in’Belvern’ (a lightly fictionalised Malvern) persuades her landlady, who is hard up, to start servi
In 1890 something, three American girls go to London for the Season. There's Selemina, almost 40 and as English as if she had been born there; Penelope, almost 30 and an artist and Francesca, almost 20 and searching for a wealthy husband. The girls enjoy the delights London has to offer and discover