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On Windycross Moor: Mabel Quiller-Couch. Collins, inscribed 1936

I probably wouldn’t have posted about this book, although it features a minor character with a remarkable name Angela Brazil would have envied, Thirza, if it hadn’t been a while since I posted a book review. I haven’t read a lot of girls own books recently.

This is about ‘early Edwardian’ Alberta Jane Penlee, who, very understandably, goes by the name Jane. It has a lot of elements from the story of Cinderella, but not always told in the order you would expect. Read more... )
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A Pair of Red Polls: Mabel Quiller-Couch. Melson

I felt swindled out of the book that I expected this to be, if that's not putting it too strongly. Subtitled ‘A Story for Girls’, there’s an oval illustration of two teenage girls talking on the front cover. I thought they’d be the two ‘red polls’ of the title, perhaps two redheads named ‘Polly’.

In fact, Read more... )

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