An orphaned girl, sent from her dying mother into hard hands, learns to endure through piety and tears.
Books that mention The Wide, Wide World (2)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “Jo spent the morning on the river with Laurie and the afternoon reading and crying over _The Wide, Wide World_, up in the apple tree.”
The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: “there was Miss Strickland's QUEENS OF ENGLAND, a book I remember with particular animosity, and QUEECHY and the WIDE WIDE WORLD.”