Author: Chappell, Jennie
Title: Holidays At Waverlea
Description: Blackie & Son, nd c 1920, reprint. Decorated cloth, VG. 224pp, colour frontis, spine a little sunned & with a small nick at the head, slightly foxed. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Children's fiction, aimed at girls, concerning two orphans & their many adventures. The Spectator of 1913 wrote - They pass happily through all sorts of scrapes and exciting events, from being lost at night in an old-fashioned maze and dressing up to take an uninvited part in a local pageant, to being nearly drowned on a rocky part of the coast. The crowning adventure of wandering about London penniless and starving brings the book to a dramatic and delightful conclusion. This attractive and pleasant story was worth a prettier binding than the garish blue that the publishers have given it.

Keywords: childrens literature