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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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Steerforth of the Age of Uncertainty posts about a rare boys' own book he found and lists its chapter titles.

In that spirit…chapter titles from the book nearest to my laptop! The Campfire Girls at Hillside by Margaret Love Sanderson* Read more... )

Why don't you post the chapter titles of the nearest (girls own) book handy? It could be fun!


* The reason it's there is that a review is in the offing. As it has been since I read it a fortnight ago.

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