Miss Rumphius

First published: 1985

Description

As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Subjects

Aunts Fiction Juvenile fiction Children's literature Girls Great-aunts Realistic fiction Nonsexist children's literature Responsibility in girls Single women Voyages and travels Old age

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