REREADING: Sylvia's Secret
Rereading Sylvia's Secret
Sylvia's Secret A Tale of the West Indies: Bessie Marchant (Blackie)
I know I've read this book before, but I didn't remember anything about it, however everything seemed oh so familiar, because it is a generic Bessie Marchant adventure story, like the last one that I read, but didn't write about (The Unknown Island) ( Read more... )
Sylvia's Secret A Tale of the West Indies: Bessie Marchant (Blackie)
I know I've read this book before, but I didn't remember anything about it, however everything seemed oh so familiar, because it is a generic Bessie Marchant adventure story, like the last one that I read, but didn't write about (The Unknown Island) ( Read more... )
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A strange criticism; do novels have to be taken seriously?
Marchant certainly puts her heroines through it and they seem to have completely useless relatives. I'm thinking of Girl of the Northland, I think it was, where the mother just lies around being helpless while the girl does everything, including a long trek.
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I was going to say that the comment was in the context of her depiction of all these far-off places, but I had a quick look back, and it wasn't.
In this book, all Sylvia's siblings are younger, two young boys, one girl an invalid of unspecified causes and one girl at boarding schools. I suppose it's to emphasise the heroine's self-reliance, although it's interesting that her reward for fighting for her family is to get to leave it and start a new one...
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