A Flat Iron for a Farthing Book Reviews

A Flat Iron for a Farthing by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing Book Summary

It is a short story book. When the children clamour for a story, my wife says to me, 'Tell them how you bought a flat iron for a farthing'. Which I very gladly do; for three reasons. In the first place, it is about myself, and so I take an interest in it. Secondly, it is about some one very dear to me, as will appear hereafter. Thirdly, it is the only original story in my somewhat limited collection, and I am naturally rather proud of the favour with which it is invariably received. I think it was the foolish fancy of my dear wife and children combined that this most veracious history should be committed to paper. It was either because-being so unused to authorship-I had no notion of composition, and was troubled by a tyro tendency to stray from my subject; or because the part played by the flat iron, though important, was small; or because I and my affairs were most chiefly interesting to myself as writer, and my family as readers; or from a combination of all these reasons together, my tale outgrew its first title and we had to add a second, and call it 'Some Passages in the Life of an only Son.

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