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title: 'When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1899-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'Children and Youth'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 127'
- 'Proverbs 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1899-when-grandmamma-was-new-the-story-of-a-virginia-childhood
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# When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood

A nostalgic memoir of a Virginia childhood: a five-year-old's mischief, jealousy over a doll, and Southern domestic life recounted in tender, humorous vignettes.

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