Empire annual for girls [volume 9] / edited by A.R. Buckland

Buckland, A. R. (Augustus Robert) (1857-1942) [editor]

1917, 1st edition. London : [Religious Tract Society], 4 Bouverie Street, E.C. Good copy in the original pictorial title-blocked cloth. Previous owner's inscription. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #437061

Physical description: 381 pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portrait ; 23 cm. Contents: "For Anither" / by Marie F. Salton -- Lonely Michael / by Helen M. Turner -- All about the Girl Guides: an interview with Miss Agnes Baden-Powell / by Norman R. Vennew -- The li'le shaver / by M.B. Manwell -- The viscount / by Lily Watson -- Susanne's folly / by Edith C. Kenyon -- The call triumphant / by John Gordon -- A heart at leisure / by M.C. Ramsay -- Gwendolen's typewriter / by Chris Fairlawn -- Thompson's minor surprise / by Grace Pettman -- How Lucia stormed a fortress / by A. Mary R. Dobson -- Our Mr. Jenkins: burglar / by Angela Weir -- The saving of a life / by Helen H. Watson -- Canada for girls / by C. Priske -- The thief in the night / by Montague Withen -- The little plot that failed / by Esther E. Enock -- Astrophel / by J.R. Henslowe -- Kate Ormsby's ride / by Alice King -- The peace-maker / by Marie F. Salton -- The most travelled woman of the day: a chat with Miss Edith A. Browne, the famous traveller and explorer / by George A. Wade -- Captain Jim / by A. Fraser Robertson -- The 'bus conductress / by Leslie Oyler -- Some vagaries of fashion / by Arden Holt -- Molly: a Christmas idyll / by Helen M. Turner -- Romantic episodes in the Old Testament / by W.S. Hooton -- Una / by Lily Watson -- Ruth's remedy / by Jessie Challacombe -- The wedding presents / by Alec Welsh -- Alicia's trust / by Morris Wheatley -- My arm and I / by A. Mary R. Dobson -- Aunt Mary's romance / by Helen M. Turner -- French girls at war work / by M. Betham-Edwards -- The engineer's romance / by Franklin Fox -- Ups and downs / by Esther E. Enock -- A predestined coincidence / by Annie Matheson -- Peace and war / by Leslie Oyler -- George Herbert / by William Cowan -- "A good pluckt one" / by A. Fraser Robertson -- When the storm raged / by Jean Hamilton -- Harold of England / by H.W. Williams -- The kyah and his cow / by M.E. Cawley -- A fearful foss / by E.E. Cuthell -- A night in the floods / by Gordon Stables. Subjects: Baden-Powell, Agnes 1858-1945 ; Interviews ; Juvenile literature. Browne, Edith A. 1874-1963 ; Interviews ; Juvenile literature. Children's periodicals, English. Short stories, English 20th century ; Periodicals. Children's literature, English 20th century ; Periodicals.

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