Late in life, the abolitionist writer Lydia Maria Child compiled this anthology for readers growing old. Alongside her own essays and sketches, such as one on old bachelors, she gathers verse and prose by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dickens, John Sterling, Zschokke and many others on grandmothers, aging couples, memory, consolation and the approach of death.
A tender Victorian gift book that still speaks kindly to anyone in their later years. Download the free EPUB.