Books with title Aunt Jane's Nieces

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Frank Baum was a famous author of childrenŽs books. He is best noted for his book The Wizard of Oz. Baum used several pen names when writing different series. He used the pen name Edith van Dyke when writing books for adolescent girls. Aunt JaneŽs Nieces is a series of ten books written for teen-age girls. Jane Merrick is a childless woman with three nieces. She asks the girls to visit her so she can decide how to distribute her inheritance when she dies. Louise, seventeen years old, is a would-be society girl, on the look-out for a rich husband; she and her mother have decided to spend their limited funds on a three-year quest for an acceptable candidate. Beth, fifteen, is a brooding small-town beauty, given to dark moods; the sixteen-year-old Patsy is a temperamental redhead who resents Aunt Jane's past neglect of her family and determines to have nothing to do with the old woman's money. The rest of the novels in the series feature travel, adventures, accidents, a kidnapping and rescue, romances, and a marriage for Louise. In Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West Beth and Patsy are staying in Hollywood after parting from their cousin's California ranch in the previous novel. They accidentally find themselves on the set of a film depicting a collapsing building. Beth is horrified that they have become unwitting extras in a motion picture,

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "This is getting to be an amazing old world," said a young girl, still in her "teens," as she musingly leaned her chin on her hand. "It has always been an amazing old world, Beth," said another girl who was sitting on the porch railing and swinging her feet in the air. "True, Patsy," was the reply; "but the people are doing such peculiar things nowadays." "Yes, yes!" exclaimed a little man who occupied a reclining chair within hearing distance; "that is the way with you young folks - always confounding the world with its people."

Aunt Jane's Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel first published in 1906, written by L. Frank Baum under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne. Since the book was the first in a series of novels designed for adolescent girls, its title was applied to the entire series of ten books, published between 1906 and 1918. The book and the series were designed to appeal to the same audience as Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Little Men. This was expressly stipulated in Baum's contract with his publishers. The ten titles are: Aunt Jane's Nieces (1906), Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (1907), Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (1908), Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work (1909), Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society (1910), Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John (1911), Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (1912), Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (1913), Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West (1914) and Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (1915).

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "This is getting to be an amazing old world," said a young girl, still in her "teens," as she musingly leaned her chin on her hand. "It has always been an amazing old world, Beth," said another girl who was sitting on the porch railing and swinging her feet in the air. "True, Patsy," was the reply; "but the people are doing such peculiar things nowadays." "Yes, yes!" exclaimed a little man who occupied a reclining chair within hearing distance; "that is the way with you young folks - always confounding the world with its people."