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Historic Girls Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times by Elbridge S. Brooks
ragne's review
4.0
An interesting read, several of these girls I hadn't heard about.
It's naturally coloured by the time in which it's written, Brooks adds a bit of moral at the end of each story, but I think a modern writer would as well, though in a different way, focusing on different things.
I see that some thinks the writing is a bit difficult, but I didn't find it so. It is after all written for children. The dialogue is sometimes a bit more old-fashioned, as a rhetorical strategy as it happens in years long ago. However, if you have read some classics, it really shouldn't be a problem at all. (Again, it's written for children.)
The saddest part of the book, was the descriptions of Palmyra, which ruins is now largely blown to bits in the civil war in Syria. As an historian, that hurt.
It's naturally coloured by the time in which it's written, Brooks adds a bit of moral at the end of each story, but I think a modern writer would as well, though in a different way, focusing on different things.
I see that some thinks the writing is a bit difficult, but I didn't find it so. It is after all written for children. The dialogue is sometimes a bit more old-fashioned, as a rhetorical strategy as it happens in years long ago. However, if you have read some classics, it really shouldn't be a problem at all. (Again, it's written for children.)
The saddest part of the book, was the descriptions of Palmyra, which ruins is now largely blown to bits in the civil war in Syria. As an historian, that hurt.
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