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The Camp Fire Girls at Hillside: Margaret Love Sanderson Reilly & Britten 1913
Following Pam Plays Doubles, this is another example of an interesting girls own subgenre, well, two, I suppose. First of all, it’s an American boarding school story (a small subgenre in my experience, but think What Katy Did at School and Jean Webster’s books). Granted, Miss Belaire’s Academy, located in Hillside, New England, in the teens of the twentieth century, is more of a boarding tertiary college for young ladies whose fathers wanted them to continue their education. But although our heroines are between 16 and 19, in many ways they feel about as young as English fourth formers who seem to range from 13 to 16. They’re girls, not quite young women.
It’s also a Camp Fire story, and while it bears a lot of similarities with Guide stories, there are some differences.
There were girls in pink linen and blue; girls in white duck and purple crash; girls in frilly lingerie waists, and girls in stiff tailormade’. (page 22 – I have no idea what type of outfits ‘white duck’ on are referring to).
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Following Pam Plays Doubles, this is another example of an interesting girls own subgenre, well, two, I suppose. First of all, it’s an American boarding school story (a small subgenre in my experience, but think What Katy Did at School and Jean Webster’s books). Granted, Miss Belaire’s Academy, located in Hillside, New England, in the teens of the twentieth century, is more of a boarding tertiary college for young ladies whose fathers wanted them to continue their education. But although our heroines are between 16 and 19, in many ways they feel about as young as English fourth formers who seem to range from 13 to 16. They’re girls, not quite young women.
It’s also a Camp Fire story, and while it bears a lot of similarities with Guide stories, there are some differences.
There were girls in pink linen and blue; girls in white duck and purple crash; girls in frilly lingerie waists, and girls in stiff tailormade’. (page 22 – I have no idea what type of outfits ‘white duck’ on are referring to).
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