The Portal of Wonderland, Life Story Of Alice Culler Cobb By Mary Culler White

Description: For your Consideration All items are sold AS IS. Pre-Owned items have been used to varying degrees & will have signs of this use. Please ask questions and review all pictures before bidding. The pictures are part of the description.If you are in doubt that the item is as described please Do Not Bid On It. The Portal of Wonderland The Life-Story of Alice Culler Cobb by Mary Culler White7 and 1/2 inch by 5 and 1/4 inch hardbound book of 240 numbered pages. Dark green cloth covers with slightly dulled gold printing. Former church library book, has the usual notations, pocket and sign out slip. The spine has been covered with wide clear tape. Inscription on first end page, along with blacked out lines at the top of the inside cover and that end page. Frontispiece picture is partially detached.Alice Cobb graduated as salutatorian of her class at Wesleyan College. Founded in 1836, Wesleyan was the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. Alice then went to LaGrange Female College where a course in graduate work had just been added. She taught at Wesleyan College, in Macon, Georgia, for over forty years, retiring in 1904. After retirement from Wesleyan College, she was appointed associate secretary for the Women's Board of Foreign Missions. The author, Mary Culler White was born May 12, 1875, in Perry, Georgia, attended Wesleyan College, was a member of the Adelphian Sorority, and graduated in 1891. In 1899 she entered Foreign Field Missionary work and spent much of her life in China. She served in the Hayes Wilkins Bible School; as evangelist at the Mary Black Hospital; and for many years worked from a house boat. Her books include: “The Days of June,” “Pen Pictures,” “The Life Story of Alice Culler Cobb,” “A Daughter of the House Boat,” “Arrows Beyond Thee” (a tribute to her cousin, Eugenia Silver Cobb), “Her Little Serene Highness” (a tribute to Mary Cobb).ShippingThis item will be shipped for a flat charge of $5.00 by USPS Media Mail to any United States Destination. International Bidders will be charged under eBay's International Shipping Program and will be charged when they complete the check-out process. Thanks for your interest!“A happy mind is a learning mind.”― Anthony T. Hincks

Price: 16 USD

Location: Milner, Georgia

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