MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Brenda Girvin, Thora Stowell, Lilian Holmes, Winifred Darch, et al
Illustrated by Mary S. Reeve, Grace Lodge, Florence Harrison, C.E. Brock, H.R. Millar, et al.
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford
in 1923
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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Brenda Girvin, Thora Stowell, Lilian Holmes, Winifred Darch, et al.
Illustrated by Mary S. Reeve, Grace Lodge, Florence Harrison, C.E. Brock, H.R. Millar, et al..
Stock no. 1325624
1923.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Pictorial front cover shows three girls sitting on grass, one reading a book. First story is "The Influence of Anne" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Some slight chipping to edges of onlay to spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing and some fingering to page edges and margins.
Front cover
Contents
- By Dorita Fairlie Bruce - The Influence of Anne, Blue Snap-dragons
- By An International - The Links of Drumnadochie
- By Marcus Woodward, The Story of Grass
- By Thora Stowell - The Wild Flower Garden, The Perfume Seller's Daughter, A Desert Song, The Blue Glass Bangle, The House of Dreams
- By Phillippa Francklyn - the Fire-fighters, Where Pink Shells Drift
- By M.C., Carey - Budge, Under Canvas
- By Mrs. Archibald H. Christie - The Making of Embroideries
- By Lilian Holmes - Night-fall, Home
- By G. E. Scotty - Alone in the Hills
- By Natalie Joan - The First Night at Aunt Tabitha's
- By Mary Oldfield - The Second Reserve
- By S. M. Hills - The Spanish Innkeeper, The King of Somewhere
- By Brenda Girvin - A Moorland Adventure
- By Charles S. Bayne - Wild Life at Dusk
- By V. M. M. Cox - How I became a Hockey International
- By Margaret Stuart Lane - Yolande
- By Winifred Darch - The Sixth-Form Stairs, The Island of Adventure
- By Eleanor E. Helme - Joy goes Hunting
- By Alice Massie - Two Grey Pigeons
- By Esmee Rhodes - A Squire of Dames
- Colour Drawings
- By Mary Strange Reeve - 'Gwenfer opened her eyes and stare'
- By T. H. Robinson 'Through an archway of fire'
- By Gertrude Demain Hammond, R.I. - 'It's only a sort of mauveish lavender'
- By Charles E. Brock R/I. 'Marie and Doreen carried the box back to their hiding place
- By Florence Harrison 'They all Begged her not to do that again'
- By H. R. Millar - 'Irene scrambled up out of reach of the sea monsters'