SCARCE 1913 LORD HORATIO NELSON FICTIONAL ROMANCE NOVEL, "A ROSE OF OLD QUEBEC"

Description: SCARCE 1913 LORD HORATIO NELSON FICTIONAL ROMANCE NOVEL, "A ROSE OF OLD QUEBEC" A truly interesting book for any Lord Horatio Nelson fan -- a historical/fictional romance that seems to combine all of Nelson's earliest love interests into one young woman who lived in Quebec, Canada during the time of the American Revolution. The book is in excellent condition commensurate with age and scarcity. Nicely illustrated, and a great read!:) Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (December 15, 1845 – July 29, 1928) was an American writer and historian.Wharton was born in Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845. The daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan Boggs, she was also a direct descendant of Robert Wharton, the longest serving mayor of Philadelphia.Educated at a private school in Philadelphia, she received a Litt. D. from the University of Pennsylvania.She devoted herself primarily to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote several books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She also helped to found the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America. In 1893, she was a judge at the American Colonial Exhibit at the World's Colombian Exposition at Chicago. She was also involved in genealogy and published The Genealogy of the Wharton Family in 1880. In 1915, the J.E. Lippincott Company published her book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans."A lifetime member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, she also served as vice president of the Browning Society of Philadelphia and was a member of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society.

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