Mother Carey's Chickens, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1911

Mother Carey's Chickens is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap, with copyright of 1911. A warm domestic story of a widowed mother and her children rebuilding their lives in a beloved old family house, it is vintage Wiggin: funny, tender, and full of summer.

Wiggin was the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and Mother Carey's Chickens carries the same quality of earned optimism, a faith in families, in the capacity of people to rise to what life asks of them, and in the particular redemptive power of an old house with a garden.

The volume opens with a black-and-white frontispiece illustration.

Olive-green decorated cloth hardcover with swallow border design and central pictorial; cover retains color with moderate general wear. Back cover shows heavier wear with cloth rubbed and faded. Inscription on front endpaper. Please review all photos carefully, and email me with any questions.