Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College

The College Girls Series #1

by Jessie Graham Flower

"Do you remember what you said one October day last year, Grace, when we stood on this platform and said good-bye to the boys? asked Anne Pierson. "No, what did I say?" asked Grace Harlowe, turning to her friend Anne. "You said," returned Anne, "that when it came your turn to go to college you were going to slip away quietly without saying good-bye to any one but your mother, and here you are with almost half Oakdale at the train to see you off to college."

Genres: Fiction, School Stories, Young Adult, School

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1914

About the author

Believed to be a pseudonym for American author Josephine Chase (died 1931) penning the popular Grace Harlowe series of 27 books for girls, written between 1910 and 1924--many of them available through Project Gutenberg.

The books fall into four separate series, including a high school series, college series, Overseas series, and Overland Riders series. Grace is a role-model, already a "paragon when her story begins." Despite the popularity of these books and their continuing availability on the used market, there is almost no information available on-line about the author.

Josephine Chase was also known by other pseudonyms, including Pauline Lester (Marjorie Dean Series), Ames Thompson, Capt. Gordon Bates (Khaki Boys series, 1918-1920), and Dale Wilkins.











Josephine Chase (? -1931), also known as Capt. Gordon Bates; Jessie Graham Flower; Pauline Lester; Ames Thompson and Dale Wilkins, was an American prolific author who wrote with the pseudonym J. G. Flower Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School (1910), Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School (1911), Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School (1911), Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School (1912), Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College (1914), Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College (1914), Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College (1914), Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College (1914), Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus (1915), Grace Harlowe's Problem (1916), Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer (1917), Grace Harlowe Overseas (1920), Grace Harlowe with the Red Cross in France (1920), Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry (1920), Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert (1921), Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail (1921), Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers (1921) and Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods (1921).

Reviews

[Cece]

Originally published in 1914, my copy is a first edition with the name handwritten inscription: "Viola Eagers December 27th 1914" on the first page. These are classic novels of the first generation to send girls to college as routine for the middle class. I love them. Lights out at 9, midnight feasts, and travelling to and from campus escorted by chaperones. Such an innocent time but filled with unimagined potential.

[Kirsti]

First year at college, and Grace faces exactly the same obstacles she always has and reacts exactly as she always has. I wish the boys were in this one more, as well as Nora and Jessica. There are new characters, but it wasn't the same. Started the next book,review to come soon.

[Annezo]

Is this a joke? Has my account been hacked?

I have zero memory of this book and have never read it.

[Samantha Glasser]

Read this book for free through Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17988/...