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I mentioned at the end of 2017 (!) that I’d bought a book by KLO. Well, this is it!

A Strange Adventure: Katherine L. Oldmeadow Warne (inscribed 1943-44)

This is a book for younger readers, its heroine being about 10 years old and the English vocabulary not too complex, though it’s laced with Scots, Norse and Norwegian words. It’s set at the end of the nineteenth century and revolves around one of Oldmeadow’s orphans. Jane Wren ( Read more... )

The House in the Oak Tree: Katharine Oldmeadow (New Edition 1951) the Lutterworth Press

I broke off from my rereading of all my Oldmeadow books (only The Fortunes of Jacky remains, I think) to review a book by her that I hadn’t come across before, although I wish that i had found it a couple of decades or more ago. The House in the Oak Tree skews younger than the other Oldmeadow books that I’ve read. It’s a family/girls story, probably influenced by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ouvre, set in the New Forest that reminds the author of fairyland, and much like with Evelyn Smith’s Terry’s Best Term (reviewed here, contains familiar elements (some problematic) presented with the author’s charm.( Read more... )

If you click on the ‘katherine l. oldmeadow’ tag below, you'll see that I’ve been gradually and deliberately rereading my incomplete set of Oldmeadows. Reading Mrs A.C. Osborn Hann's 'The Redhead Patrol' reminded me to come to this next.

The Pimpernel Patrol: Katharine L. Oldmeadow, Collins

On the face of it, this is Oldmeadow’s most conventional book (that I own). ( Read more... )

Princess Charming: Katherine L. Oldmeadow. The Children’s Press 1960?

I’ve owned this book since before I wrote my name in ‘joined-up’ writing, so I’m hardly unbiased, but it was good to reread this (and a while since I had last read it). It left me wanting to collect more of Oldmeadow’s books – I have about five of them, and it's been a while since I bought the last.

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