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Barbara at School: Josephine Elder, Blackie

How lovely to be able to sink into a boarding school story where the characters are realistic and their doings are credible. It wasn’t unexpected given that Josephine Elder is the author of this book, but still, ( Read more... )

Here’s my annual round-up of highlights from 2018 posts. ( Read more... )

Last year's post.

Campfire Girls in the Country (or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot): Stella M. Francis

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Doctor Noreen: E.E. Ellsworth

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The Mascotte of Sunnydale: E.L. Haverfield

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Of the three, I preferred the latter.

There was another book that I read over my Easter holidays that I want to review, but it deserves a post of its own.

The Encircled Heart: Josephine Elder, Girls Gone By, 2012 reprint. (First published 1951)

Two words from the same root came to mind as I started reading this book: absorbed and absorbing. ( Read more... )

Olive Roscoe or The New Sister: E. Everett-Green, Nelson

The first two chapters of this book left me going ‘Blimey.’ In those chapters, ( Read more... )

Happy New Year!

I am home after the Christmas holidays. Determined to travel yesterday, I had to change my travelling plans, but all ended up well.

You know how you notice something and then other examples of it keep cropping up, like buying clothes in a striking colour and then seeing people wear it all the time, well, these holidays, with me, it was books that don’t just have chapter titles, but each page has a relevant heading. I’ve probably got other books that do that, but I hadn’t really noticed them.

In Margery Merton’s Girlhood by Alice Cockran, they include ‘SECRETS AND TENDER THOUGHTS.’ (p25), ‘CRYING AND LAUGHING.’ (p112), and ‘A COLD FAREWELL.’ (p.213). In Miriam’s Ambition by Evelyn Everett-Green, they include ‘A TERRIBLE STORM.' (p26), ‘AT DINNER.’ (p113), and ‘A REWARD FOR BRAVERY.’ (p214)

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I also read the third in Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries. Only six months had elapsed since I read the previous book. Requiem for a Mezzo. ( Read more... )

One morning this week, I breezed through

My Cousin from Australia: Evelyn Everett Green Hutchinson, Second Edition

I found this copy while doing a sort out. Apparently I bought it just before going to university for 10p (those were the days). I wasn’t sure whether I’d read it before, and having finished it and based on the pile of books where I found it, I’m not sure whether I actually did.

It’s pretty terrible. ( Read more... )

Edited on 31st of May to correct a character's name.

I note this because it’s happened in the last two girls own stories that I’ve read, and doesn’t happen that often. Among the stories in Blackie’s Girls Annual (see this entry) is ( Read more... )

How rare do you feel fighting is in Girls Own? Are there authors that are more likely to write about it than others? What stance do they take (eg is is a 'wild' girl who hasn't had a mother/has been brought up with several brothers?)? Is there a change in attitudes over the years (did I miss the Fight Club Term at Trebizon?)

I caught a bug over Easter, and I’m not quite fully recovered yet. Anyway, here’s what I read...( Read more... )