# A Little Girl of Long Ago

A Little Girl of Long Ago by Amanda M. Douglas has 92,996 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Amanda M. Douglas](https://musael.com/books/authors/amanda-m-douglas.md) (1831–1916)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 92,996
- **Reading time:** 6 h 12 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 7 h 45 min | 16 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 12 min | 13 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 10 min | 11 days |

## Read or listen

A Little Girl of Long Ago is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23781

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 92,996
- Chapters: 22
- Dialogue: 29% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.2 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23781 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7711837W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23781

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/a-little-girl-of-long-ago