Marjorie Dean
Marjorie Dean is the protagonist and eponymous character of series of books for girls, written by Josephine Chase under the pen name Pauline Lester. The fourteen books were published by A. L. Burt between 1917 and 1930. Chase wrote a number of series, including the '' Grace Harlowe'' series under the pseudonym Jessie Graham Flower. Titles in the series ''Marjorie Dean High School Series'' *Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman (1917) *Marjorie Dean, High School Sophomore (1917) *Marjorie Dean, High School Junior (1917) *Marjorie Dean, High School Senior (1917) ''Marjorie Dean College Series'' *Marjorie Dean, College Freshman (1922) *Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore (1922) *Marjorie Dean, College Junior (1922) *Marjorie Dean, College Senior (1922) ''Marjorie Dean Post-Graduate Series'' *Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate (1925) *Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager (1925) *Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms (1925) *Marjorie Dean's Romance (1925) *Marjorie Dean Macy (1926) *Marjorie Dean Macy ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grace Harlowe
Grace Harlowe is the protagonist and eponym of four series of books for girls, published by Altemus between 1910 and 1924. At least some volumes were reprinted by Saalfield Publishing. The ''High School Girls Series, College Girls Series, Grace Harlowe Overseas Series'', and ''Grace Harlowe Overland Riders Series'' were written by Josephine Chase, under the pseudonym Jessie Graham Flower. Titles in the series ''The High School Girls Series'' *Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School; The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls (1910) *Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School; or, The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics (1911) *Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities (1911) *Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School; or, The Parting of the Ways (1911) ''The College Girls Series'' *Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College (1914) *Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College (1914) *Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Over ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jessie Graham Flower
Jessie Graham Flower is a pseudonym for American author Josephine Chase. Born about 1878 in Pennsylvania to Edward H. Chase and Mary Arrner Chase. Chase was the author of the popular ''Grace Harlowe'' series of 27 books for girls, written between 1910 and 1924.Series Books The books fall into four separate series, including a high school series, college series, ''Overseas'' series, and ''Overland Riders'' series. Chase never married. She died February 8, 1931, in Philadelphia. The author was also known by other pseudonyms including Pauline Lester (The Marjorie Dean series), Ames Thompson (The Adventure Boys series), Captain Gordon Bates (The Khaki Boys series, 1918–1920), Grace Gordon (The June Allen series), and Dale Wilkins. The Harlowe series follows the life of its heroine more or less chronologically from high school through college and beyond. Like Flower's other heroine, Grace is a role-model, already a "paragon when her story begins".Lundin 2003, p.106 Books in the Gra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Betty Gordon
The Betty Gordon books were an early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, published under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson. Ghostwriters Edward Stratemeyer Edward L. Stratemeyer (; October 4, 1862 – May 10, 1930) was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. He is one of the most prolific writers in the world, having penned over 1,300 book ... created the series and wrote plot outlines for books by a number of ghostwriters. Josephine Lawrence wrote the first four volumes in the series, as well as volumes 7 and 9. Titles 5 and 6 were written by W. Bert Foster, number 8 by Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward and numbers 10 through 15 by Eunice W. Creager."The Betty Gordon Series." http://www.series-books.com/bettygordon/bettygordon.html Titles # Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm, or, The mystery of a nobody, 1920 # Betty Gordon in Washington, or, Strange adventures in a great city, 1920 # Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil, or, The farm that wa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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LibriVox
LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire with the objective to "make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet." On 6 August 2016, the completed projects numbered 10,000; on 14 February 2021 there were 15,000, and on 17 December 2024 the catalog reached 20,000 recordings. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple affiliated projects that are providing additional content. LibriVox is associated with Project Gutenberg from where the project gets some of its texts, and the Internet Archive that hosts digital recordings. History LibriVox was started in August 2005 by Montreal-based writer Hugh McGuire, who set up a blog, and posed the question. The first recorded b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Book Series Introduced In 1917
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages Bookbinding, bound together and protected by a Book cover, cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the Clay tablet, tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly Library classification, classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Characters In Children's Literature
Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus Music * ''Character'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005 * ''Character'' (Julia Kent album), 2013 * ''Character'', an album by Rachael Sage, 2020 * ''Characters'' (John Abercrombie album), 1977 * ''Characters'' (Stevie Wonder album), 1987 * "Character", a song by Ryokuoushoku Shakai, 2022 Types of entity * Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc. ** Character actor, an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles ** Character sketch or character, a literary description of a character type * Game character (other), various types of characters in a video game or role playing game ** Player character, as above but who is c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |