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A Girl of To-day

Chapter 30: BLACKIE’S EIGHTEENPENNY SERIES.
By Ellinor Davenport Adams
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The narrative follows a spirited teenage girl who returns home from school to a small country village and renews her close companionship with her younger brother. Through a sequence of local episodes—schoolroom recollections, games, amateur photography, music and mumming, and village social gatherings—she meets friends and rivals, faces minor scandals and practical dilemmas, and grows more confident in judgment and responsibility. Encounters with a blacksmith, a doctor, and other townspeople introduce modest mysteries and rescues, while family duties and an eventual southern journey round out a portrait of emerging independence within rural community life.

BLACKIE’S EIGHTEENPENNY SERIES.

Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant.

  • Holidays at Sandy Bay. By E. S. Buchheim.
  • Best of Intentions. By Geraldine Mockler.
  • An Africander Trio. By Jane H. Spettigue.
  • A Chum Worth Having. By Florence Coombe.
  • Penelope and the Others. By Amy Walton.
  • The “Saucy May”. By Henry Frith.
  • The Little Girl from Next Door. By Geraldine Mockler.
  • Uncle Jem’s Stella. By Mrs. Martin.
  • The Ball of Fortune. By C. Pearse.
  • The Family Failing. By D. Dale.
  • Warner’s Chase. By Annie S. Swan.
  • Climbing the Hill. By Annie S. Swan.
  • Into the Haven. By Annie S. Swan.
  • Down and Up Again. By Gregson Gow.
  • Madge’s Mistake. By Annie E. Armstrong.
  • The Troubles and Triumphs of Little Tim. By Gregson Gow.
  • The Happy Lad. By B. Björnson.
  • A Box of Stories. By H. Happyman.
  • The Patriot Martyr, and other Narratives of Female Heroism.
  • Olive and Robin. By Mrs. Martin.
  • Mona’s Trust. By P. Leslie.

With Illustrations. In crown 8vo, cloth elegant.

Reduced Illustration From “A Chum Worth Having”.

  • Little Jimmy: A Story of Adventure. By Rev. D. Rice-Jones, m.a.
  • Pleasures and Pranks. By Isabella Pearson.
  • In a Stranger’s Garden. By Constance Cuming.
  • Yarns on the Beach. By G. A. Henty.
  • A Soldier’s Son. By Annette Lyster.
  • Mischief and Merry-making. By Isabella Pearson.
  • Tom Finch’s Monkey. By J. C. Hutcheson.
  • Miss Grantley’s Girls. By Thos. Archer.
  • The Pedlar and his Dog. By Mary C. Rowsell.
  • Littlebourne Lock. By F. Bayford Harrison.
  • Wild Meg and Wee Dickie. By Mary E. Ropes.
  • Grannie. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght.
  • The Seed She Sowed. By Emma Leslie.
  • Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl’s Life. By Caroline Austin.
  • Everybody’s Business. By Ismay Thorn.
  • Tales of Daring and Danger. By G. A. Henty.
  • The Seven Golden Keys. By James E. Arnold.
  • The Story of a Queen. By Mary C. Rowsell.
  • Edwy: or, Was he a Coward? By Annette Lyster.
  • The Battlefield Treasure. By F. Bayford Harrison.
  • Joan’s Adventures at the North Pole. By Alice Corkran.
  • Filled with Gold. By J. Perrett.
  • Our General. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght.
  • Aunt Hesba’s Charge. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght.
  • By Order of Queen Maude. By Louisa Crow.
  • The Late Miss Hollingford. By Rosa Mulholland.
  • Our Frank. By Amy Walton.
  • A Terrible Coward. By G. Manville Fenn.
  • Town Mice in the Country. By M. E. Francis.
  • Phil and his Father. By Ismay Thorn.
  • Prim’s Story. By L. E. Tiddeman.

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