At long last, Game 46 comes to an end (and about time too, I hear some of you mutter).

The Round Five lines were as follows...

1. If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different.
Written by L. M. Montgomery, guessed by lslaw and jeffr232. The Blue Castle was far more real to Valancy than her own ( Read more... )

Pick a line, any line ( Read more... )

For the final round, I'm cheating slightly on my theme. "The Blue Castle" is by a well-known author of girls' fiction, Canadian L. M. Montgomery, but this particular book is more aimed at young women than girls.

Here's a blurb from the back of the current paperback edition( ... )

And here, finally, are the results of the Austrian jury Round Four. (Sorry for the delay. Life got in the way.)

1. It was a pleasant place.
Written by Laura E. Richards, guessed by lslaw and mentalfirewall.

2. Some anonymous poet or wordsmith of one sort or another famously remarked that every cloud must inevitably come equipped with a silver lining.
Written by jeffr23 ( Read more... )

We have lines - at last ( Read more... )

After much deliberation, I've chosen "Hildegarde's Home" by Laura E. Richards for this round.

Here's a description of the book, lifted from the Redeeming Qualities blog( ... )

And, the results...

1. "Oh gracious. Something simply must be done!" exclaimed Mrs Chester upon reading the letter from the fraulein.
Written by mentalfirewall.

2. Rhoda Chester was quite certain that the German fraulein was the most graceful, poised and constant woman in all the world.
Written by lslaw, guessed by jeffr23, mentalfirewall3. "'Tom' is a rather queer name for a girl, isn ( Read more... )

And the lines are in ( Read more... )

For round three, we're crossing the ocean; our author this time is Briton Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, who wrote books for girls and young women during the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. And the book is one of her first ones, "Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story ( Read more... )

The lines for "Rose in Bloom" were( ... )