The Smile of Arabella single work   children's fiction   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 The Smile of Arabella
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A little girls chooses a doll for her French orphan friend - paying half a crown for the best one rather than only two shillings which would have left her enough for a kitten. Mother buys the kitten anyway. Upper middle-class exemplary tale. (PB)

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