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badgerbag ([personal profile] badgerbag) wrote in [community profile] girlycon2009-05-27 01:57 pm

Welcome, introductions, and here's a resource

Hello! Welcome!

Introduce yourself if you like in comments or a post.

As I went looking for interesting community icons I came across this great but U.S.-centric book list:

GIRLS SERIES BOOKS:
A CHECKLIST OF TITLES PUBLISHED 1840-1991





The chronological index is pretty neat! We could make polls for each time period.

Please feel free to post about whatever you'd like relating to reading girls' books.
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[personal profile] al_zorra 2009-05-28 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I loved /love 'girls' fiction, but I wasn't that fond of series, I'm afraid. Unless it was animals, like the Albert Payson Terhune Lad books or The Black Stallion books. I adored the two Bambi books. Almost all of those most loved books I own now, with the except of the series I did love, which was Lovelace Betsy books.

I'm hoping maybe someone can help me with the title and author of a book I did love and re-read constantly, set in later 19th century small town midwestern U.S. It was something like "Deskmates" or "Seatmates," and the Louisa May Alcott novels and a library played key roles in the book.

Love, C.
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[personal profile] al_zorra 2009-05-28 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Sunny Banks was in the New Jersey aristo land of Harvey, Jackie-O's fox hunting crew, making it most convenient for Manhattan dog shows and for the author's visits to his publishers like The Saturday Evening Post.

The Lad: A Dog gives us Lad's death, post a life of honor, filled with great deeds, devotion and triumphs. I wept EVERY time I read it, where ever I happened to be reading it. Lad, of course, was a knight, devoted to his lady, the Mistress.

Talk about class education.

Love, C.