And the EJO Society have just republished the very first in the 'Abbey' Series, Girls of the Hamlet Club - see their Publication News page

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to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e.cummings
http://stitchwords.blogspot.co.uk

Have just read Understood Betsy following recommendations on here and loved it - made a nice change from the adult Mrs George de Horne Vaizey books I've been racing my way through - some of them are a bit depressing, although the one I've just finished (An Unknown Lover?) has some pretty enlightened views on addiction, presumably from her own experience with her first husband.

Has anyone read any other Dorothy Canfield Fisher books? I've downloaded a few from PG but not sure what to read next.

I've read The Bent Twig and enjoyed it. Passage of a girl through teenage years to maturity. The author has some very advanced ideas of what women can/should do.....

I have a couple more awaiting me on the Kindle

ETA Oh - how exciting - I've just noticed that I have The Home-Maker by her in my collection of Persephones awaiting me in the Czech Republic

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Cestina's dolls houses - Where has the week gone?

Just finished The Bent Twig (following Cestina's recommendation)- I enjoyed it; reminded me a bit of The Ragged Trouser'd Philanthropists in its ideas, but dressed up in far more congenial surroundings (I'm so shallow ).

I really liked the ambiguity - there were different ways you could look at almost all of the characters, especially Sylvia. I feel it's sending me off to read some Henry James.

It did feel quite long, although I was reading it on Kindle so don't know how many pages it had.

ETA I thought Belinda in Concerning Belinda (also recommended above) went through life a little like a chaste (but dimpling) Barbarella. Be interesting to know what anyone else thought.

Just finishing the last Mrs George de Horne Vaizey available on gutenberg.org and had the thought that she might be related to the culture minister Ed Vaizey. A look at this biog (http://www.athelstane.co.uk/hornvaiz/hornvaiz.htm) suggests he might well be a great grandson - it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the family wiki entries.