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Before posting this, I feel I should mention that I overwrote the review I drafted immediately after finishing this book. Said draft has achieved mythic status in my mind. I'm sure I expressed myself wonderfully in it. What I have to offer here is what I scrambled up from memory.

Well Done, Denehurst!: Gwendoline Courtney. Girls Gone By publishers. 2005

But Avice did not answer. She was staring in perplexity at her captor. Then suddenly recognition showed in her eyes.

"You!" she gasped. "So it's you!"

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Nicky of the Lower Fourth by Evelyn Smith (Blackie & Son.) is the first book by this authoress that I’ve ever read, but I’ll certainly keep an eye out for more from now on. ( Read more... )

Willingly to School: Mary Cathcart Borer Lutterworth Press 1976.

I have to admit to being underwhelmed. For one thing, surely it would have been more honest to subtitle it ‘A History of English Women’s Education’, ( Read more... )

Torley Grange: Gwendoline Courtney Girls Gone By Publishers, 2008.

The word that comes to me after having enjoyed reading this book on a train journey is ‘jolly’. ( Read more... )