Julia Augusta Schwartz (1873–1957)
Autor/a de Beatrice Leigh at College: A Story for Girls
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Julia Augusta Schwartz
Grasshopper Green's garden; the story of some wonderful little lives. A nature reader for elementary schools (1910) 2 exemplars
Elinor's College Career 2 exemplars
Little Star Gazers (1917) 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1873-02-03
- Data de defunció
- 1957-06-07
- Lloc de naixement
- Albany, New York, USA
- Educació
- Vassar College (BA|1896)
Vassar College (MA|English Literature|1897)
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 21
- Popularitat
- #570,576
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
The content is typical of old "girls' school" books--friendships and academic honors and midnight "spreads"--although it avoids the nearly-ubiquitous plagiarism scandal and even makes a meta-reference to the cliche.
However, I rated this book at just two stars because it is unusually disjointed. Almost every chapter is a vignette about different students at the college. Beatrice Leigh appears only occasionally, and the final chapter is about Berta Abbott (although I could hardly tell Bea and Berta and Robbie apart). Characters don't show much personality or development, and conflicts and character flaws are resolved with a single sentence, then dropped for the rest of the book. The book skips along through the four years of college with little transition, and when we are suddenly told that some of the girls are in quarantine with some illness, I wondered if I'd missed a chapter.
Trivia: The college is Schwartz's alma mater, Vassar.
Beatrice Leigh at College @ Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25893
More on Julia Augusta Schwartz:
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/findingaids/schwartz_julia.html… (més)