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| Title | The Discontented Children, and how They Were Cured Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Authors | Mary Kirby, Elizabeth Kirby |
| Illustrated by | Hablot Knight Browne |
| Publisher | Grant and Griffith, successors to Newbery and Harris, 1855 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 11, 2006 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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