The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1029, September 16, 1899

ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY. VARIETIES. THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH. THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING. THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS. LETTERS FROM A LAWYER. OUR LILY GARDEN. UPS AND DOWNS. SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS. SHEILAS COUSIN EFFIE. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DIAPER DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY. In an age when many books on every sort of subject and vexed question are being daily launched into the world, it is a relief to turn to the pure, wholesome novels of Rosa Nouchette Carey, the popular authoress, who has steadily held her ground with her public since the production of her first book, Nellies Memories, composed and related verbally to her sister, while yet in her teens, though not actually written until some few years later. The youngest girl but one of a family of seven, and in her girlhood delicate in health, which caused her education to be somewhat desultory, Rosa Carey soon displayed an aptitude for composing fiction and little plays which she and her sister acted, one of her chief amusements being to select favourite characters from history and from fiction, and trying to personify them, while her greatest pleasure was to relate short stories to this same younger sister over their needlework. It is a strange fact that, during her simple, happy, uneventful girlhood, chiefly spent in reading, in writing poetry, and in other girlish occupations, Rosa Carey, who was of a somewhat dreamy and romantic disposition, feeling the impossibility of combining her favourite pursuits with a useful domestic life, and discouraged by her failures in this respect, made a deliberate and, as it afterwards proved, a fruitless attempt to quench her longing to write. This unnatural repression, however, of a strong instinct could not be conquered, and after some years she yielded to it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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