A simple country girl visits her rich, fashionable city relations and gently exposes their follies. Alcott's contrast of honest and frivolous values.
Books mentioned in An Old-Fashioned Girl (7)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell: “asked Polly, sucking her orange in public with a composure which would have scandalized the good ladies of "Cranford."”
A Latin Reader by Albert Harkness: “And Tom dealt "Harkness's Latin Reader" a thump, which expressed his feelings better than words.”
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: “Your nose is as red as that cranberry sauce," answered Fan, coming out of the big chair where she had been curled up for an hour or two, deep in "Lady Audley's Secret."”
Sacred Dramas by Hannah More: “At eight o'clock on the appointed evening, several of us professed great weariness, and went to our room, leaving the rest sewing virtuously with Miss Cotton, who read Hannah More's Sacred Dramas aloud, in a way that fitted the listeners for bed as well as a dose of opium would have done.”
The Battle of Lake Regillus by Thomas Babington Macaulay: “If the governor took any notice of me, and cared how I got on, I would n't mind the presents so much; but he don't care a hang, and never even asked if I did well last declamation day, when I'd gone and learned 'The Battle of Lake Regillus,' because he said he liked it."”
The Phantom Bride: “Oh, have you read 'The Phantom Bride'? It's perfectly thrilling! There 's a regular rush for it at the library; but some prefer 'Breaking a Butterfly.”
Breaking a Butterfly: “There 's a regular rush for it at the library; but some prefer 'Breaking a Butterfly.”