cover

McLoughlin Bros.

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[title IMPROVED
AUTHORS

THE
QUEENS
OF
LITERATURE

Celia Thaxter

WITH
PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.]

COPYRIGHTED BY McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK 1889

A portrait of Celia Thaxter is shown on the cover.

literature, portrait, autograph

The game includes cards with illustrations or photographs of the following 9 female authors:

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, Celia Laighton Thaxter, Phoebe Cary, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Isabella Macdonald Alden, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Jean Ingelow, Margaret Deland, and Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

Cards for the following 9 male authors are included:

James Russell Lowell, William Dean Howells, Samuel L. Clemens, Richard Grant White, Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
James Fenimore Cooper (misspelled as Fennimore though not in his signature), James T. Fields, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Dudley Warner.

Four cards are provided for each author; one includes the name of the author, and the other three list works authored. Each card in a set of 4 for an author contains a portrait of the author. A total of 72 cards are included in the game.

The backs of the cards show a child reading.