May Iverson - Her Book

May Iverson #1

by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Excerpt from May Her "Blossom says I'm considered one of the friendliest girls in school, but it was fully two weeks before even I called Maude Joyce by her first name, and I think it must have been a whole month before I got round to Maudie. She was a very proud, haughty girl, and kept us at a distance. She told me afterwards that this was because she was watching us and making up her mind which Of us she cared to have come into the individual Circle of her life. She used beautiful language sometimes. She said girls Often made mistakes when they went to a new school, and took up with the first student that came along, instead Of waiting to know them and make a wiser choice; and she said that intimacies once formed were Often hard to break. You see how clever she was to think Of all these things. I never do. I either like a girl or dislike her right Off, and when I do like her I just put myself out to Show it. Of course, I'm particular about some things - the way..."

281 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1904

About the author

Elizabeth Garver Jordan (May 9, 1865 – February 24, 1947) was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.

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Reviews

[Bryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

A 1904 novel for girls, about wealthy young women at a Catholic school learning valuable life lessons. I was pleasantly surprised that the lessons were mostly not along the lines of 'how to find someone to marry' and that there was much discussion of careers and friendships in their future. The girls did have romantic dreams, but they were just part and parcel of the whole, rather than what the book was about. It was a pleasant read, funny in places, and very soothing, but I am not in a hurry to seek out more books by the author.