Four girls of forty years ago

Chapter 1: FOUR GIRLS OF FORTY YEARS AGO

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Four sisters live together in a staid, unfamiliar house after their mother’s death while their father remains away, and they must adapt to changes such as the loss of their nurse and the death of their grandfather. The narrative proceeds episodically through visits, music lessons, neighborhood incidents, a child’s disappearance, celebrations, and efforts by the older girls to find work, with recurring tensions around new guardians and household authority. Each chapter sketches domestic episodes and small crises that test the girls’ resourcefulness and mutual devotion, emphasizing resilience, responsibility, and the comforts of sisterly solidarity.

FOUR GIRLS OF FORTY
YEARS AGO

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FOR YOUNGER READERS

“The Brick House Books”

The sight of the brick house on the cover makes girl
readers happy at once.—Indianapolis News.

Illustrated. Large 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 each.

ONLY DOLLIE
THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR
WINIFRED’S NEIGHBORS
THE CHILDREN ON THE TOP FLOOR
HOW BARBARA KEPT HER PROMISE
LITTLE MISS ROSAMOND
PRISCILLA OF THE DOLL SHOP
BRAVE LITTLE PEGGY
THE OTHER SYLVIA
MAISIE’S MERRY CHRISTMAS
LITTLE QUEEN ESTHER
MAKING MARY LIZZIE HAPPY
A REAL CINDERELLA
NORA’S TWIN SISTER
FOUR GIRLS OF FORTY YEARS AGO

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
BOSTON