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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
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
Bab: or The Triumph of Unselfishness (1892)
Bab goes for a two month’s stay with her aunt and manages to tame her selfish cousin.
Author(s):
Ismay Thorn
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Girls and I: A Veracious History (1892)
The adventures of a boy and his four sisters. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
A Ring of Rubies (1892)
The legacy of a ring of rubies alters Rosamund Linley’s fortunes. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
L. T. Meade
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
A Hit and a Miss (1893)
Making a great impression is not all it is made out to be, in this story of a gang of children in a park.
Author(s):
Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children (1893)
Mary is four and cannot remember how old she was when she learned to read. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Penelope and the Others (1893)
The adventures of five children who live in the English countryside. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Amy Walton
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Peterkin Papers (1893)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
My New Home (1894)
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
When Molly was Six (1894)
Author(s):
Eliza Orne White
Illustrator(s):
Katharine Pyle
The Carved Lions (1895)
A brother and sister are unhappy at boarding school when their parents must go abroad. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Little Girl from Next Door, etc. (1896)
Phil Raymond takes pity on the orphan girl next door and smuggles her off to the seaside in a hamper, where she makes a discovery that alters her life.
Author(s):
Geraldine Mockler
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Oriel Window: A Book for Boys and Girls (1896)
On his ninth birthday Ferdy is thrown by his new pony and injures his back. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
School in Fairyland (1896)
The story of a class of girls taught by fairies.
Author(s):
E. H. Strain
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Miss Mouse and Her Boys: A Story for Girls (1897)
An only girl of nine is introduced to five boy cousins. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Evelina or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World (1898)
A novel in letters from the turn of the nineteenth century. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Frances Burney
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Golden Age (1899)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1899)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
The April Baby’s Book of Tunes (1900)
Author(s):
Elizabeth von Arnim
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1901)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright