feather_ghyll: drawing of a girl from the 1920s reading a book in a bed/on a couch (Twenties girl reader)
2023-06-04 09:06 am

REVIEW: The Head Girl at Wynford

The Head Girl at Wynford: Winifred Darch, Oxford, 1935.

This book is a cut above the girls own stories I’ve been reading recently and haven’t posted about (they’ve been at about the level of ‘Shirley at Charterton’ so I wasn’t very motivated to post about them) if not top flight. It starts on the last day of term, Read more... )

[Edited 22/5/25.]
feather_ghyll: One girl seated by an easel with a watching girl standing behind (Girl painter)
2019-04-19 09:17 am

REVIEW: Gillian of the Guides

Gillian of the Guides: Winifred Darch, Oxford, 1929.

This is the best girls own book I’ve read so far this year. It’s much more thoughtful about human nature and depicts it rather more credibly than the last couple of books I’ve reviewed. Also, Read more... )