A Thrilling Term at Janeways': Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Nelson

I found this 'School Story for Girls' ( Read more... )

Torridons’ Triumph: Marie Muir Collins 1967This is the first book by Muir that I’ve read - I think there were others by her in the shop where I saw this, but I decided to just buy one as a taster - and it was a really enjoyable and satisfying story. It falls into that sub-genre where a family of youngsters must band together to make enough money to ( Read more... )

Collected over months (or longer):

A tribute to Elinor M. Brent-Dyer by nobodyjones

The thrill of the used bookstore huntAmanda Diehl talks about book hunting practices involving second-hand bookshops that I can partially sympathise with. I do have strange habits about books, but let’s focus on the euphoria of finding something you’ve long looked ( Read more... )

Rangers and Strangers and Other Stories: Ethel Talbot Nelson

I didn't realise until opening this book to read it that it was a collection of short stories, rather than one book-length story. The title of the collection comes from the first and longest story, and is, in a way misleading, because( Read more... )

Some biographical information on Katherine L. Oldmeadow and a review of Princess Prunella here, which I first read when I was young enough that going to France did seem like a remarkable event to me.

Lyzzybee has written an enthusiastic review of Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea that doesn’t give too much of the plot away but gives a good ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

A collection of links, some of them related to recent posts and things of interest, some that I came across quite some time ago.

Swallows and Amazons memorobilia here!

A critical review of Diana Wynne Jones's The Game (in lieu of my thoughts which I never did write up) by a DWJ fan.

Author Hilary Mantel talks about looking for female role models ( Read more... )

Is Meg Cabot the L. M. Montgomery of her generation? In the future, will daughters read their mothers' copies of her books and pass them on to their own daughters? Is there another author who fits that bill ( Read more... )

Researching for this review, I found out that one of its sequels, Toby of Tibbs' Cross, is that book featuring a Land Girl that I was thinking of the other day. The fact that I didn't remember that I'd read about the further adventures of this character doesn't worry me particularly, but as it wasn't on my main list of girls' own stories, that ( Read more... )

This is what happens when you don't do your googling before posting an overview of a subgenre. You have to do a follow-up post.

Here's an informative overview of the Sally Baxter series.

Article: Not Just for Children Anymore: Girls' Series Books
What many girls' juvenile series seem to have in common is that they posit the existence of a safe, ( Read more... )