{"id":1781,"date":"2018-12-19T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2018-11-22T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:33:43","slug":"christmascountdown-me-and-catharine-susan-earns-an-honest-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2018\/12\/19\/christmascountdown-me-and-catharine-susan-earns-an-honest-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and Catharine Susan earns an honest penny – #ChristmasCountdown Door no. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

#ChristmasCountdown<\/strong><\/a>
\nDoor no. 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story starts with peg dolls sitting at a dinner table…<\/p>\n

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Page from ‘Me and Catharine Susan earns an honest penny<\/a>‘ showing two peg dolls at the table with empty plates (Rare Books, RB 823.912 AIN)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Empty plates!!<\/em>
\nand not a penny left.<\/em><\/p>\n

Something must be<\/em>
\ndone at once.”<\/em><\/p>\n

You join two peg dolls on their journey trying to earn some money, through setting up (with varying successes) different businesses, such as a sewing and clothes alterations shop, a tea shop in their garden, becoming market gardeners and growing their own vegetables, selling buttonholes and teaching other peg dolls to dance.<\/p>\n

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Page from ‘Me and Catharine Susan earns an honest penny’ showing one of the peg dolls create buttonholes to sell (Rare Books, RB 823.912 AIN)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Page from ‘Me and Catharine Susan earns an honest penny’ showing one of the peg dolls showing the ‘Buttonholers’ to dance (Rare Books, RB 823.912 AIN)<\/p><\/div>\n

Explore another Kathleen Ainslie book that we have in Special Collections; \u2018Catherine Susan and Me\u2019s Coming Out\u2019, in our February 2017\u00a0Treasure of the Month Feature<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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