Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
by Juliana Horatia Ewing
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Geared for younger audiences, this sweet story will appeal to fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women or Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. Margaret Vandaleur's early life is beset by tragedy and ill fortune, but thanks to the kindness of a relative who takes her in, she is able to enjoy a happy childhood and befriend a number of girls who will be lifelong pillars of support..
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- Canonical title
- Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
- Original publication date
- 1875
- Important places
- Yorkshire, England, UK; India; Southern England, UK
- First words
- Eleanor and I are subject to fads.
- Quotations
- “They live in Yorkshire,” said Major Buller, much as one might speak of living in Central Africa.
The reckless imprudence of most girls in matters of health is proverbial, the wisdom of young matrons in this respect is not beyond reproach, and the lore which long and painful experience has given to older women is apt, lik... (show all)e other lessons from that stern teacher, to come too late. It should at least avail to benefit their daughters, were it not that custom prescribes that they also should be kept in the dark till instructed in turn by the lamentable results of their ignorance, too often only when these are past repair.
[W]hen a practised writer is speaking of the early days of celebrated poets, he says quite gravely—“Like Byron, Scott, and other illustrious men, Hogg (the Ettrick shepherd) fell in love in his very early childhood.” An... (show all)d of course it sounds better than if one said, “Like Smith, and Brown, and Jones, and nine out of every ten children, he did not wait for years of discretion to make a fool of himself.”
Then tall chimneys poured smoke over the landscape and eclipsed the sun; and through strangely shaped furnaces and chimneys of many forms, which here poured fire from their throats like dragons, and there might have been the ... (show all)huge retorts and chemical apparatus of some giant alchemist, we ran into the station of a manufacturing town.
One secret of the happiness of some occupations is, perhaps, that they lift one away from petty cares and petty spites, without trying the brain or strength unduly, as some other kinds of mental labour must do.
“Of course it's unsatisfactory in one way to feel one will never live to finish things, but in another way I think it's a great comfort to feel one can never use them up or outlive them if one lasts on to be a hundred. And ... (show all)though one gets very cross and miserable with failing so over things one works at, I don't know whether one would be so much happier when one was at the top of the tree. I'm not sure that the chief pleasure isn't actually in the working at things—I mean in the drudgery of learning, rather than in the triumph of having learnt.”
How fatiguing is enforced idleness! - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)["] Do you remember Mother's saying long ago, that intellectual pleasures have this in common with the consolations of religion, that they are such as the world can neither give nor take away ?"
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