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I didn’t like it, I found it flat and boring. It’s classed as a children’s book from the past, so it’s very different to the books made for children now. But it does have morals for the story.

But the characters were well developed, there wasn’t too much detail about each one but you can tell their reasonings for their actions.
I’m not likely to pick this up ever again and this is one I had to due to it being on my children’s lit reading list.

That’s all lovelies!

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2.0

This book was insufferable but interesting. It was the first full-length novel for children and the first specifically for girls and, on learning this, and especially because it was written by a woman, I thought it would be a fascinating and empowering read. It is so difficult to read, however, because the tone is so different to what I am used to. From the first page the writer clarifies that she thinks that the point of reading is to extract morals from within. The novel takes place over ten days and mainly takes the format of several fables told from various girls as well as their personal life stories, and in each, the lesson is made abundantly clear, before then being restated by the main teacher. The tone was overwhelmingly patronising and the girls, with their noble one-dimensional goodness, were completely unlikable. Whilst unenjoyable to read, the novel offers up interesting points about the role of the female child, their education in the past and the role of women generally not that it really makes the experience worthwhile.

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3.0

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1.0

Imagine having nothing but this and the Bible to read. Absolutely excruciating.

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