Mary Ware the Little Colonel chum Annie F 18631931 Johnston 9781171841678 Books
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Mary Ware the Little Colonel chum Annie F 18631931 Johnston 9781171841678 Books
Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's spunky, slightly clumsy protegee, is off to Warwick Hall. This book fills in the time between Lloyd's engagement and marriage.For those new to the series, Lloydsboro Valley is an old Southern mansion in Kentucky. Lloyd Sherman, named "the Little Colonel" for her bossy ways as a little girl, is the only daughter of the aristocratic Old South family. Mary Ware's older sister was once a guest at Lloyd's house pary (see The Little Colonel's House Party) and Mary was enchanted by her sister's stories of eleven-year-old Lloyd. When Lloyd came to Mary's home in Arizona when Mary herself was 11, the younger girl decided that she wanted nothing more than to be just like "The Princess Lloyd." At the time of this book, Lloyd is engaged, and Mary is attending Lloyd's old boarding school, unconsciously growing more like her model every day.
All that history out of the way, here's my opinion. Lloyd is a worthy model, but in the previous books that only mentioned her, she seemed a little spoiled. It was fascinating to read about her luxurious life, but Lloyd was such a faultess angel that sparky, intelligent, talkative, plain Mary Ware is a relief. You can identify with her more than Princess Lloyd.
Since this series is out of print, you can read the scanned versions at littlecolonel.com. It's especially interesting because it's not historical fiction in the usual sense--it was actually written in 1900. Some of the 1900 ideas are a little offensive to African-Americas especially. However, since that was the general attitude toward blacks at the time, don't take it as a personal insult; look at it as history. Another dated reference is the old Aunt Alexandra idea that rich, "patrician" children such as Lloyd are better than everyone else.
One thing that throws a little bit of a shadow over the series is the moral. In The Little Colonel's House Party, all the girls vowed to build a "road of the loving heart" in everyone's memory. They would not leave a single rock or root on other people's memory of them. The idea is beautiful, but in the next book, another is added, and it gets superfluous. Lloyd is sworn into another moral, where she reads a symbolic story about three weavers, one who squandered her wool on poor boys and had none left when the prince came, one who gave all her wool to a shepherd boy and regretted it, and the third, who waited till her prince arrived and had the whole loom of wool to give him. Lloyd promises her father that she will wait for her prince to come, and resists attentions from her cute neighbor's cousin, who later turns out to be no more than a shepherd boy. And THEN she gets two more morals to live up to when she visits Mary Ware in Arizona--the "School of the Bees" and the "True Blue" anti-gambling moral. It's almost too many to keep track of. At boarding school she promises to "Keep the Tryst" and reads another sappy story about living up to expectations. Finally, she finds a last moral in The Little Colonel, Maid of Honour--the four-leaf clover, working hard to find the fourth leaf of honor and happiness, blah blah blah. That is WAY too many! I don't know if morals were a fad in 1900 or something, but they really get annoying now, even if--seperately--they are good ideas to live by.
All in all, however, this is a terrific series. Annie Fellows Johnson captured emotions realistically, and feelings never go out of date. The writing is beautiful and Mary's mishaps are funny.
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Mary Ware the Little Colonel chum Annie F 18631931 Johnston 9781171841678 Books Reviews
Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's spunky, slightly clumsy protegee, is off to Warwick Hall. This book fills in the time between Lloyd's engagement and marriage.
For those new to the series, Lloydsboro Valley is an old Southern mansion in Kentucky. Lloyd Sherman, named "the Little Colonel" for her bossy ways as a little girl, is the only daughter of the aristocratic Old South family. Mary Ware's older sister was once a guest at Lloyd's house pary (see The Little Colonel's House Party) and Mary was enchanted by her sister's stories of eleven-year-old Lloyd. When Lloyd came to Mary's home in Arizona when Mary herself was 11, the younger girl decided that she wanted nothing more than to be just like "The Princess Lloyd." At the time of this book, Lloyd is engaged, and Mary is attending Lloyd's old boarding school, unconsciously growing more like her model every day.
All that history out of the way, here's my opinion. Lloyd is a worthy model, but in the previous books that only mentioned her, she seemed a little spoiled. It was fascinating to read about her luxurious life, but Lloyd was such a faultess angel that sparky, intelligent, talkative, plain Mary Ware is a relief. You can identify with her more than Princess Lloyd.
Since this series is out of print, you can read the scanned versions at littlecolonel.com. It's especially interesting because it's not historical fiction in the usual sense--it was actually written in 1900. Some of the 1900 ideas are a little offensive to African-Americas especially. However, since that was the general attitude toward blacks at the time, don't take it as a personal insult; look at it as history. Another dated reference is the old Aunt Alexandra idea that rich, "patrician" children such as Lloyd are better than everyone else.
One thing that throws a little bit of a shadow over the series is the moral. In The Little Colonel's House Party, all the girls vowed to build a "road of the loving heart" in everyone's memory. They would not leave a single rock or root on other people's memory of them. The idea is beautiful, but in the next book, another is added, and it gets superfluous. Lloyd is sworn into another moral, where she reads a symbolic story about three weavers, one who squandered her wool on poor boys and had none left when the prince came, one who gave all her wool to a shepherd boy and regretted it, and the third, who waited till her prince arrived and had the whole loom of wool to give him. Lloyd promises her father that she will wait for her prince to come, and resists attentions from her cute neighbor's cousin, who later turns out to be no more than a shepherd boy. And THEN she gets two more morals to live up to when she visits Mary Ware in Arizona--the "School of the Bees" and the "True Blue" anti-gambling moral. It's almost too many to keep track of. At boarding school she promises to "Keep the Tryst" and reads another sappy story about living up to expectations. Finally, she finds a last moral in The Little Colonel, Maid of Honour--the four-leaf clover, working hard to find the fourth leaf of honor and happiness, blah blah blah. That is WAY too many! I don't know if morals were a fad in 1900 or something, but they really get annoying now, even if--seperately--they are good ideas to live by.
All in all, however, this is a terrific series. Annie Fellows Johnson captured emotions realistically, and feelings never go out of date. The writing is beautiful and Mary's mishaps are funny.
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