The vital experiences of this young couple and their friends and their emotional reactions are common to thousands of adolescents who live in any one of our great cities. 'It does not give an adequate conception of Miss Delmar's novel to say that Dot lived in the Bronx and Eddie in Harlem, that he worked in a radio shop and that she was a typist or that they met on a Sunday night excursion on the Hudson and loved each other and married. Young, plain-spoken Rose takes what she calls a 'job' in a department store. Artistic Helen keeps their little flat, while Mary works as a private secretary after attending business school. The three Blythe girls live on their own in New York City. The Blythe Girls: Helen, Margy and Rose or, Facing the Great World. Though similar to earlier school-girl novels, Molly Brown deals with the issues relevant to young women pursuing a college education. Molly Brown, first introduced in Molly Brown of Kentucky, is attending college. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921.Ī girl desperate to leave Boston buys a train ticket to Blossom, Maine, where she finds both independence and romance. However, the narrative is spiced with accounts of courtship, and the entrance of female characters who hold their own, both in battle and in life. This peculiar piece of juvenile literature is essentially a 'boys' adventure story, filled with shipboard adventures, pirates and exotic settings. New York: The Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. At the start of this novel, she moves into her own home, living alone for the first time. Rebeka has an odd name, a dark complexion, and has recently vowed to 'live on earth as in heaven.' In every respect, she is an anomaly, out of place in her world. Burt, 1898.Ī country girl struggles against social, class, and family expectations, travelling to the city to become a real artist. Annice Wynkoop, Artist: The Perseverance of a Country Girl. Lee and Shepard, 1868.Ī series of short stories about poor but adventurous girls who find success in life.

Whoa Matilda by Janet Lambert