"A Vanished World is a delight. It is tough and true. And while it centers on the Moulton family of Cicero, New York, it has a universality that takes it beyond any boundaries but that of time."—Auburn Citizen-Advertiser
"Sneller evokes the lives of her ancestors so that they become ours as well. Simply by remembering she moves us."—Newsweek
"Extraordinarily good. . . . One of the best accounts ever written of a certain kind of American experience."—New York Herald Tribune
"A long lifetime of memories: of a loving, hard-working farm family in northern New York State, of a late Victorian farm childhood, of Union veterans talking grimly about the Civil War, of letters home by some of the family who pioneered in the West. This book has much humor, poignant appeal, and a wealth of anecdotes."—Publishers Weekly
Description
A Vanished World is an elegant and exquisite personal portrait of a rural, turn-of-the-century childhood from a young girl’s perspective. But Anne Sneller’s “vanished world” is not just the small world she knew as a child; it is the world of the old rural America, a peaceful world of family farms, quiet country roads, and small towns, which stretched from New England to the West Coast, from Minnesota to Texas.
About the Author
Anne Gertrude Sneller was born in 1883. She attended the district school in Cicero, New York and graduated from Syracuse High School as valedictorian of the class of 1901. She received a Bachelors degree, summa cum laude, from St. Lawrence University in 1906, and began teaching school in Schenevus, New York the same year. From 1914 until her retirement in 1940, Sneller taught English at North High School in Syracuse. A Vanished World was her first book.
August 1994