Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine, to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820 and studied at Andover Theological Seminary afterward. From 1825 to 1829 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College. He founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was its principal from 1829–1833. Later, he was a principal of Abbott’s Institute, and then the Mount Vernon School for Boys in New York City. He was a prolific...
The Junior Classics (Vol 1-9) - Children's Literary Odyssey: Fables Fairy Tales and Animal Stories from Around the World
William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Abbott, Andrew Lang, John Bunyan, Thomas Bulfinch, Rebecca Harding Davis, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Edward Everett Hale, Jacob Grimm, Sophie May, Jean Ingelow, Emerson Hough, Charles Perrault, Flora Annie Steel, Geoffrey Chaucer, Virgil Virgil, Joseph Jacobs, Frances Browne, Elsie Finnimore Buckley, Elizabeth Harrison, George Webbe Dasent, Livy, Albert Lee, Henry W. Longfellow, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, E. S. Brooks, H. R. Schoolcraft, P.C. Asbjornsen, Cornelius Mathews, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Louisa M. Alcott, Paul Sébillot, Homer Homer, William Grimm, E. Frere, Ramaswami Raju, Hermann R. Kletke, John T. Naaké, Lillian M. Gask, W. S. Karajich, Adele M. Fielde, Mary Pamela Milne-Horne, Mme. d'Aulnoy, Constance Maud, George W. Cox, Annie Ker
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