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    The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan
    The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan
    The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan
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    The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan

    By Lizette M. Edholm

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMar 1, 2010
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      The first installment of a four-book series published in 1932, The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan introduces the reader to the eponymous Merriweather Girls, a club formed by four young women who name themselves after Lady Betty Merriweather, a fictitious heroine of the American Revolution. Bet Baxter, who lives at Merriweather Manor with her wealthy and very indulgent father, Colonel Baxter, and her two chums, flighty Joy Evans and serious Shirley Williams, are soon joined by transplanted Arizona girl Kit Patten, and the four vow to uphold the high standard of their role model. But when a valuable antique fan that once belonged to Marie Antoinette goes missing from the Colonel's study, and their good friend Phil Gordon falls under suspicion, they find that being heroines is more difficult than it looks...My first encounter with the Merriweather Girls was through the fourth and final book of the series, The Merriweather Girls At Good Old Rockhill, and I enjoyed it so much that I immediately began to look around for the other titles. Vintage girls' series have a certain charm to them, with their old-fashioned vocabulary - "chums" rather than "friends," "roadsters" rather than "cars" - and less violent plots. Unfortunately, they also sometimes contain socially anachronistic views, whether of race, gender or class. Thankfully, The Merriweather Girls contains very little of this latter, and so the pleasure to be had from it is mostly unalloyed.The author has a charming "girls can do" attitude, probably very modern at the time of publication, and her heroines like to assert that "girls are as good as boys" (very true), and wonder whatever possessed the women of previous eras to wear the uncomfortable clothing they did. While still good friends with a number of boys, who show up to save the day upon occasion, the focus (as is the case in all girls' series) is on the girls' adventures and resourcefulness.Published during the Great Depression, it is interesting to note that the events of those tumultuous times, while not central to the plot, do figure in the story. The girls' efforts to collect toys to hand out to needy children at Christmas is a reminder of the general poverty of the times, as is the huge crowd of men who respond to the girls' advertisement for someone to repair those toys. I myself am charmed by the fact that the series takes place in the Hudson Valley, very close to my "neck of the woods," and recommend it as a pleasant read to anyone with an interest in girls' series from the first half of the twentieth century.

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