Nell Speed (1878–1913)
Auteur de Molly Brown's Sophomore Days
Séries
Œuvres de Nell Speed
The Carter Girls 3 exemplaires
In New York with the Tucker Twins 3 exemplaires
The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors 2 exemplaires
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp 2 exemplaires
The Carter Girls of Carter House 2 exemplaires
Molly Browns Freshman Days 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1878
- Date de décès
- 1913
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Kentucky, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA
Richmond, Virginia, USA - Professions
- Writer
- Relations
- Sampson, Emma Speed (sister)
- Courte biographie
- The Molly Brown Series has eight titles, originally published by Hurst from 1912 to 1921. It was reprinted by A. L. Burt. The author is listed as "Nell Speed," but Nell died after writing the first four titles, and her sister, Emma Speed Sampson, took over the writing of this series. Emma continued to use her sister's name as her own pseudonym when she wrote The Carter Girls and The Tucker Twins series. The first four Molly Brown titles are college romances, set in Wellington College near New York City. With the fifth title, and the change in authorship, the stories move south to Kentucky, although Molly and her friends visit France and Great Britain in #s 6 and 7.
Membres
Critiques
Read for the Project Gutenburg Distributed Proofreaders smoothreading round, where it's compared variously to Nancy Drew and Little Women. Myself I'd compare it to an American Mallory Towers: although it's set at university rather than secondary school it has that whole having-fun-while-getting-good-grades-and-dealing-with-antisocial-troublemakers. And the plot relies on the idea that telling tales is the worst sin of all -- or perhaps that's telling a single harmless (admittedly selfish) lie.
Our heroine is poor but sweetly forthright so in short order she's admired by all the freshmen, all the sophomores except the antagonist, at least one senior, and a professorial love interest who she's too innocent to realise is a love interest even by the end of the book. (The series will of course continue.) She's friendly, brave, clever, hard-working (to earn money as well as at her studies) and principled to a fault. Everyone else is as they should be -- spoilt rich girl, women's lib girl, doesn't-get-on-with-mother girl, has-problems-with-grades girl, and so forth -- so if you like this sort of book, you'll like this.… (plus d'informations)
Our heroine is poor but sweetly forthright so in short order she's admired by all the freshmen, all the sophomores except the antagonist, at least one senior, and a professorial love interest who she's too innocent to realise is a love interest even by the end of the book. (The series will of course continue.) She's friendly, brave, clever, hard-working (to earn money as well as at her studies) and principled to a fault. Everyone else is as they should be -- spoilt rich girl, women's lib girl, doesn't-get-on-with-mother girl, has-problems-with-grades girl, and so forth -- so if you like this sort of book, you'll like this.… (plus d'informations)
I had to read this since I'd read the previous three... The moral of the year is apparently that trying to look nice is bad. Problematic treatment of "our coloured man", Irish cooks and housekeepers, and the token Japanese schoolfellow continue, with our heroines cheerfully mocking the father of this last for his accent and then being shocked, shocked, that when his daughter finds out about this she takes it the wrong way and is offended.
Predictable love affair continues predictably.
Predictable love affair continues predictably.
Molly's second year of university hijinks, in which she and the nearest she has to an enemy both confront the spectre of sudden poverty and having to move into less desirable lodgings and work for a living. Molly copes better because she's the heroine and has friends who refuse to abandon her.
Also in which a Japanese woman joins their boarding house and proceeds to talk in broken English and act like someone straight from Mikado. I'm not making this up, the characters in the book actually compare her directly to "Three Little Maids". Not enough side-eye in the world. (Even for the period it was written. Hint: If your character is straight from a comic musical, it's possible that they're not terribly original or well-rounded.)… (plus d'informations)
Also in which a Japanese woman joins their boarding house and proceeds to talk in broken English and act like someone straight from Mikado. I'm not making this up, the characters in the book actually compare her directly to "Three Little Maids". Not enough side-eye in the world. (Even for the period it was written. Hint: If your character is straight from a comic musical, it's possible that they're not terribly original or well-rounded.)… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Membres
- 136
- Popularité
- #149,926
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 65
- Langues
- 2
Also, apparently the best way to deal with someone so proud of their smarts that they wear their highschool medals to university is to tell them that this intimidates people. Because honesty would just be wrong.
There was also some standard romantic misunderstanding nonsense, but otherwise fairly unmemorable.