Marm Lisa

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This new story has the charm of all Mrs. Wiggin's work, with the difference that it seems addressed to a more mature audience. Marm Lisa is only ten, "a little, vacant-eyed, half-foolish, almost inarticulate child," but the psychology of the darkened young soul reached far beyond the limitations of childish comprehension.

It is impossible to conceive of a more exquisitely sympathetic character study than this of a feeble-minded child, whose affliction is of a kind that usually repels. And in contrast with the pathetic little central figure is that of her mistress, who is portrayed with keen yet not unkind satire.—From a review in the Bookman Feb. 1897

MARM LISA

BY

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

The eternal-womanly
Ever leadeth us on

Goethe's Faust.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

Copyright, 1896,
By KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

By Mrs. Wiggin.

THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL. Illustrated. Square 12mo, boards, 50 cents.
THE STORY OF PATSY. Illustrated. Square 12mo, boards, 60 cents.
A SUMMER IN A CAÑON. A California Story. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25.
TIMOTHY'S QUEST. A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, who cares to read it. 16mo, $1.00.
The Same. Holiday Edition. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP, and PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES. Illustrated, 16 mo, $1.00.
POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.00.
The Same. In Riverside School Library. 60 cents, net.
THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER. 16mo, $1.00.
MARM LISA. 16mo.
NINE LOVE SONGS, AND A CAROL. Music by Mrs. Wiggin. Words by Herrick Sill, and others. Quarto.

By Mrs. Wiggin and Miss Smith.

THE STORY HOUR. A Book for the Home and Kindergarten. By Mrs. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. Illustrated. 16mo, $1.00.
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS. By Mrs. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. A Book of Nursery Logic. 16mo, $1.00.
THE REPUBLIC OF CHILDHOOD. By Mrs. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. In three volumes, each, 16mo, $1.00.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,

Boston and New York.

CONTENTS

chapter page
I. Eden Place 1
II. Mistress Mary's Garden 12
III. A Family Polygon 23
IV. Marm Lisa is Transplanted 37
V. How the New Plant grew 47
VI. From Grubb to Butterfly 61
VII. The Comet and the Fixed Star 70
VIII. The Young Minister's Psychological Observations 84
IX. Marm Lisa's Quest 96
X. The Twins join the Celestials 107
XI. Rhoda frees her Mind 118
XII. Flotsam and Jetsam 132
XIII. Leaves from Mistress Mary's Garden 148
XIV. More Leaves 161
XV. "The Feast o' the Babe" 174
XVI. Cleansing Fires 183

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1896, before the cutoff of January 1, 1928.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1923, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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