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REVIEW: A Girl of Mettle
Sep. 16th, 2008 06:10 pmA Girl of Mettle: Frances West. Collins.
Amazon dates this book at 1908 and 1922 - there's no indication which my copy is, or whether it was published at another time entirely. My research (Googling) doesn't bring up much on Frances West and this book. But I'm assuming that she should not be confused with a mid-nineteenth century namesake and a more recent namesake who writes romance. Still, it's a disappointment to discover that - like Desmond Skirrow who was the first children's book author I looked up online - this Frances West didn't write anything else (okay, Skirrow did write more, but it was for adults), because I enjoyed this.
In one sense it's the oft-told story of a child getting through the barriers of a disapproving relative, with all the symbolism of life and rebirth that that entails, ( Read more... )
Amazon dates this book at 1908 and 1922 - there's no indication which my copy is, or whether it was published at another time entirely. My research (Googling) doesn't bring up much on Frances West and this book. But I'm assuming that she should not be confused with a mid-nineteenth century namesake and a more recent namesake who writes romance. Still, it's a disappointment to discover that - like Desmond Skirrow who was the first children's book author I looked up online - this Frances West didn't write anything else (okay, Skirrow did write more, but it was for adults), because I enjoyed this.
In one sense it's the oft-told story of a child getting through the barriers of a disapproving relative, with all the symbolism of life and rebirth that that entails, ( Read more... )
