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Last May, I posted a list of links with the title 'LINKS: VARIOUS', saying ‘Here are some links I have meant to post for a good long while’. This is the case again, only the links are different:

Here’s an enthusiastic review of Daddy Long-Legs (I must find a copy of Dear Enemy!)

And in the same series of ‘Squee’ features, one for The Blue Castle (the comments praise A Tangled Web, which is one of the few LMM books I don’t own…yet).

Here's an overview of the Dimsie series and its appeal which led me to something similar about the Abbey girls series.

The confessions of a sci-fi and fantasy bookseller (some of this is specific to SFF, but some points would be echoed by other booksellers, I think.)

Resources:
Ju Gosling's wonderful The Virtual World of Girls, which kept me interested throughout last summer, particularly The History of Girls School Stories. It's very comprehensive and interesting, even though I'm unconvinced by certain arguments. (The later portion, about technology and its implications is already really dated.)

Livejournal communities:
girlsown This community is devoted to vintage girls' fiction, mostly British and Australian. Think Brent-Dyer rather than Betsy-Tacy!

new_atalanta This is a community for articles, discussion, character studies and reviews – all directly related to Girls' Fiction. [...] New Atalanta is a group blog [...] Participants are asked to make 'post proposals' - book reviews; character studies; articles or essays on individual books or series, or on themes across series; graphics; recs and links to fic or to other people's meta.

Collecting Books and Magazines - wide-ranging information available here on Abbey, Biggles, Billabong, Billy Bunter, Chalet, Dimsie, Famous Five, Merry, Jennings, William, Anne of Green Gables, Gem, Observers, Ladybirds, Magnet, Wonder Books and many other literary subjects. ANNUALS, ARTICLES, ARTISTS, AUTHORS, BOOK COLLECTORS and COLLECTING, CHILDREN'S AUTHORS, CLUBS, EPHEMERA, FANZINES, MAGAZINES, NEW BOOKS and special presentations, NON-FICTION GENRES & SERIES, PAPERS, POCKET LIBRARIES, READERS, SERIES and STORY PAPERS.
I've only dipped in so far - it's probably not safe for me to do otherwise.

Publishers:
Girls Gone By I can personally recommend their service. Republishing hard-to-find gems (I've been using them heavily for Oxenham, but they do Brent-Dyer, Gwendoline Courtney and many more, not to mention related non-fiction.)

Fidra books - (re)publishes Mabel Esther Allan books among other children's adventure stories (see the list!)
The publisher's blog is here.

Booksellers:
Topsy Turvy Children's Books sellers of 2nd-hand books.