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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Jessie Fothergill (1851–1891)

Fothergill, Jessie. An English story-teller; born at Manchester, June 7, 1851; died at London, July 1891. Her stories show a keen faculty of observation; among them are: ‘Healey, a Romance’ (1875); ‘The First Violin’ (1878), in which German life is faithfully portrayed; ‘Probation’ (1879); ‘Kith and Kin’ (1881); ‘The Lasses of Laverhouse’ (1888); ‘Oriole’s Daughter’ (1893).