Timeline
Lifetime:
1820 -
1900
Passed: ≈
124 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Lucretia P. Hale
Books by Lucretia P. Hale
Peterkin Papers
Comedy
Fiction
Children's Literature
Family
19th century
Children's Literature
Absurdity
Philadelphia
American Literature
Classic
Humor
Mishaps
Inept
Solution
Wise
Lady
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and...