Project Gutenberg 2020-10-24 Public domain in the USA. 138 Kilner, Mary Ann 1753 1831 Kilner, Mary Jane Slinn, Sarah S. S. 78311111 The Adventures of a Pincushion, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies Produced by Charlene Taylor, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The University of Florida, The Internet Archive/Children's Library) "The Adventures of a Pincushion, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies" is a children's fictional narrative written in the late 18th or early 19th century. The story is crafted to entertain and instruct young readers, particularly young girls, offering moral lessons through the amusing events that befall a sentient pincushion. As such, it is a whimsical exploration of childhood experiences and domestic life. At the start of the story, we meet Mrs. Airy and her two daughters, Martha and Charlotte, who engage in sewing and sibling antics. Martha successfully completes a pincushion, setting the stage for the pincushion's adventures as it narrates its own experiences from a first-person perspective. The opening introduces themes of family relationships, responsibility, and proper behavior, especially for young girls, providing an engaging mix of lightheartedness and moral instruction that characterizes the book's approach to education through storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 56.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Temper -- Juvenile fiction Sisters -- Juvenile fiction Orderliness -- Juvenile fiction Pincushions -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels 154835 2025-06-25T07:43:49.972742 text/html 129173 2024-10-18T07:24:56 text/html 9635088 2025-06-25T07:43:54.815712 application/epub+zip 9636055 2025-06-25T07:43:51.519738 application/epub+zip 108402 2025-06-25T07:43:50.665740 application/epub+zip 9685356 2025-06-25T07:43:57.235698 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9665892 2025-06-25T07:43:53.928727 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 142930 2022-09-28T16:52:25.068297 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 128948 2025-06-25T07:43:49.493730 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 108735 2024-10-18T07:24:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17638 2025-06-25T07:43:57.367705 application/rdf+xml 9925 2025-06-25T07:43:50.754716 image/jpeg 1801 2025-06-25T07:43:50.709727 image/jpeg 9626616 2025-06-25T07:43:50.157738 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia