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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Wives and Daughters (1866)
Author(s):
Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s):
George du Maurier
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
What Katy Did at School (1873)
Katy goes East to boarding school. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Susan Coolidge
Illustrator(s):
Addie Ledyard
The Peterkin Papers (1880)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin (1886)
In these further adventures of a muddleheaded family, the Lady from Philadelphia again comes to their aid.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Admiral’s Caravan (1892)
A young girl named Dorothy takes a journey with three wooden statues who come alive on Christmas Eve. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
Five Children and It (1902)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ethel Franklin Betts
The Railway Children (1906)
The Story of the Amulet (1906)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
M. A. Claus
W. A. J. Claus
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
George Gibbs
The Terrible Twins (1913)
A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Hanson Booth
Anne of the Island (1915)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
H. Weston Taylor
The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)
A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margery Clark
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The School at the Chalet (1925)
This is the first in a series of about 60 books by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.
Author(s):
Elinor Brent-Dyer
Illustrator(s):
Nina K. Brisley
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward