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The Old Peabody Pew
Kate Douglas Wiggin · 1907
The Dorcas Society gathers at the Tory Hill meeting-house to ready the little Edgewood church for Christmas. As Nancy Wentworth tends the old Peabody pew, memories of its family—and of Justin, long away in Detroit—draw a quiet village romance toward home.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 45 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Nancy Wentworth, Justin Peabody, and Their Neighbors
The Peabody Family and the People of Edgewood
The Women of the Dorcas Society
A New Chimney for the Meeting-HouseThe Dorcas Society turns its attention to the village church.
The Faded CushionNancy repairs a small remnant of the Peabody family's place in church.
The Acreville Visitor
The Saco Valley and Edgewood
The Tory Hill Meeting-HouseThe white Orthodox Meeting-House stands on Tory Hill above the grassy common.
This edition
- Title
- The Old Peabody Pew
- Author
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- First published
- 1907
- Illustrated plates
- 89 original artworks · 45 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 9 · about 13,523 words
- Reading time
- 54 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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