REREADING: The Camp Fire Girls at Hillside

[feather_ghyll]

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

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[callmemadam]

This sounds a truly awful book! In True to the Trefoil there's a discussion of the differences between Campfire and Guides. Most of the examples come from books by Elsie J Oxenham, where girls tend to agonise over the choice between the two.

[feather_ghyll]

It is of its age and constrained by the attempt to 'sell' the Camp Fire movement.

The Camp Fire movement appears in For the Sake of the School by Brazil. I don't recall the Guides being mentioned as a choice there.