Books with author Emma Speed

There were persons in Dorfield who said that Mary Louise’s life was too easy; that Fortune had smiled on her more than any one mortal had a right to expect. Why should beauty; charm; intelligence; and riches all belong to one girl? Why should she have an enormously wealthy grandfather whose one idea was to gratify her every wish; when any other girl; if she had any grandfather at all; was; perhaps; forced to support him or; at any rate; never got even a taste of the breast of the chicken because of the troublesome old gentleman’s predilection for that portion of the fowl?

This is the sixth book in the Mary Louise series started by L. Frank Baum in 1916 under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne. This was the first book written by Emma Speed Sampson, an author of series fiction for girls in her own right. Unlike the previous book, Mary Louise Adopts A Soldier, which was written by an as of yet unknown author after Baum's death in 1919, and which contains some contradictory elements from Baum's original four books, this sixth title in the series not only emulates Baum's style and tone, but expands upon the characters of Elizabeth Wright, a friend of Mary Louise, and, especially, Josie O'Gorman, the detective in training of the previous books, who gets "deputized" by the local police chief and sets up shop with Elizabeth to sell odds and ends, do sewing and embroidering, perform editing services - and does unpublicized detective work on the side. Mary Louise takes a secondary role here, with Josie taking center stage. Through Elizabeth, Sampson expresses some feminist ideas - Elizabeth wants to work, not try to find a husband or become a socialite lady like her mother or sisters. Josie is much more independent than ever before, has the authentic admiration of the police chief, Londale, who says at one point that he wishes he had more like her on his force, and she later says that the men on the force got in her way, slowing her ability to solve the case as efficiently as she would have if she was working alone.

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Written for young girls, this is book №4 in "The Carter Girls Series" by Emma Speed Sampson. Sampson, using the name of her sister Nell Speed, wrote 4 titles in the Molly Brown series after her sister's death in 1913. She also wrote several volumes including the Carter Girls series and the Tucker Twins before she began publishing works under her own name. "The Carter Girls of Carter House" is a good, clean book full of the antics of a family working together to solve their financial woes in a very creative way. The girls are creative, daring, dramatic, and pure fun! As usual with Sampson's writing, the story is characterized with a contagious work ethic, ambition, cheerfulness, and entrepreneurial endeavors. She shines in the realm of attitudes toward hardship.

Mary Louise had stood the test of being rich and beloved, and envied by all the daughters of Dorfield; and then of being poor and bereft, pitied by all who had formerly envied her. Soon after the death of her grandfather, Colonel Hathaway, had come the news of her husband's shipwreck. Hope of Danny Dexter's survival was finally abandoned by his sorrowing little wife and his many friends. Colonel Hathaway's comfortable fortune had mysteriously disappeared and Mary Louise faced a future of poverty.

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