Project Gutenberg 2009-01-28 Public domain in the USA. 91 Jewett, Sarah Orne 1849 1909 Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Betty Leicester: A Story for Girls" by Sarah Orne Jewett is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows the journey of a fifteen-year-old girl named Betty Leicester, who embarks on a summer adventure to Tideshead, where she will stay with her grandaunts while her father travels to Alaska. The story explores themes of growth, friendship, and the contrast between old and new as Betty navigates her relationships and begins to understand her place in the world. The opening of the book introduces Betty and her father during breakfast at a hotel in Boston, highlighting their close bond and setting the stage for Betty's upcoming journey. As they part ways, Betty expresses sadness about her father's trip, emphasizing her longing for connection. The narrative then follows Betty as she takes a train and a packet boat to Tideshead, where she expects to reconnect with her aunts and childhood friends, including Mary Beck. The vivid descriptions of her travels, her emotions of excitement and loneliness, and the encounters along the way establish the novel's focus on a young girl's coming-of-age experience amidst the backdrop of familiar yet evolving relationships. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Girls -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 367387 367395 2024-09-12T06:15:33.309471 2023-09-12T09:44:40.054495 text/html text/html 369039 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 216033 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 280723 2024-09-12T06:15:39.819433 application/epub+zip 284263 2024-09-12T06:15:34.971428 application/epub+zip 201584 2024-09-12T06:15:33.990473 application/epub+zip 455951 2024-09-12T06:15:43.575428 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 419960 2024-09-12T06:15:39.068405 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318089 2022-09-13T05:51:41.686478 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 336200 336003 2024-09-12T06:15:32.614468 2023-09-12T09:44:39.483512 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 336011 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 125763 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 336007 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 125725 2021-01-04T16:50:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20207 2024-09-12T06:15:43.714401 application/rdf+xml 14378 2024-09-12T06:15:34.348496 image/jpeg 3728 2024-09-12T06:15:34.170444 image/jpeg 268327 2024-09-12T06:15:33.347454 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia