Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Woman Named Smith
George Smith, was a ruddy English ship-chandler who pitched upon Boston for a home, and lived with his family in the rooms above his shop; and my grandmother Smith dropped her aitches' with the cheerful ease of one to the manner born, bless her stout old Cockney heart! I can remem ber her hearing me my spelling-lesson of a night her spectacles far down on her old button of a nose, her white curls bobbing from under her cap.
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