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What happens when bold, stubborn sisters must learn lessons they would rather leave behind in the woods?
In Girls of the Forest, L. T. Meade follows a group of sisters whose lives are bound to the woods and to one another. Quick and spirited, they do not always welcome instruction. Their forest setting helps shape the family, while the clash between wildness and lessons gives this story of growing up its lively energy.
At the heart of the novel is a question familiar to any family: how do people stay close when they disagree? The sisters have distinct natures, and learning does not come without resistance. Meade brings adventure, feeling and a clear sense of right and wrong to a domestic drama where family ties matter as much as individual spirit.
What you’ll discover
- A forest shaped family Enter a household whose ties to the woods help shape the sisters’ lives.
- Spirits that resist instruction Meet bold girls who do not quietly accept every lesson they must learn.
- Sisters with distinct natures Discover how different characters bring energy and friction to a shared family life.
- Bonds tested by disagreement Follow a story that asks what holds a family together when opinions clash.
- Growing up with feeling Find gentle moral lessons within a warm tale of reluctant learning and family attachment.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy spirited sisters, country houses, comic servants and a warm family story with a moral heart, and anyone who likes tales of growing up where a good deed and a bad choice both have lasting effects.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Ten wild girls plot against an aunt
- Aunt Sophia takes charge
- Order replaces misrule at The Dales
- Nancy King and a forbidden friend
- Pauline in Punishment Land
- A burn, a lie and a net
- Birthday joys and a midnight picnic
- Penelope schemes her way to the sea
- White Bay and the weight of conscience
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Verena DaleThe eldest sister, gentle and fair, who acts as a little mother to the others and wants to keep the peace.
- Pauline DaleA dark, plain, strong-willed girl who loves her sisters and her friend Nancy, and is torn between pride and conscience.
- Penelope DaleA clever, stout seven-year-old who wants to leave the nursery, bargains for pennies and watches everyone.
- Miss Sophia TredgoldThe girls' aunt, a determined, fashionable and generous woman who comes to The Dales to bring order and stays to win their love.
- Mr. Henry DaleThe girls' scholar father, who lives in his study translating Virgil and forgets his family until music calls him out.
- Nancy KingA loud, rich farmer's daughter who clings to the Dale girls, loves fun and can be bossy and cruel when crossed.
- Briar and Patty DaleTwo younger sisters, devoted to each other and to Pauline, who help her at a cost to their own consciences.
- Farmer KingNancy's hearty father, proud of his family's old loyalty to the Dales and ready to keep his promise to help Pauline.
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Las muchachas de Forest
by L. T. Meade · 1902
Ten wild sisters and their dreamy father plot to send a strict aunt packing, but she has come to stay.
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Ten wild girls plot against an aunt
The story opens on a summer afternoon at The Dales, an old Elizabethan house gone shabby. Eight girls sit on the lawn and talk about Aunt Sophia, who is due tomorrow. The eldest, Verena, is gentle and fair. Her sisters call her Renny. Pauline, Briar and Patty are ready to show the visitor what they think of her interfering ways. The cause of it all is Miss Stapleton, the governess they nicknamed the Step, who wrote to the aunt before she left.
The girls drag their father, Mr. Dale, from his study. He is a stooped scholar with tortoiseshell spectacles who is busy with a line of Virgil. They call him Paddy or the Padre. When they ask him to describe Aunt Sophia, he can only say she was old, or perhaps neither old nor young, and unpleasant. He remembers nothing else.
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What is Girls of the Forest about?
It follows ten motherless sisters at The Dales, a shabby house in the New Forest, when their strict Aunt Sophia arrives to educate and reform them. Two sisters, Pauline and Penelope, find themselves tangled in secrets and mischief.
Who is Aunt Sophia Tredgold?
She is the girls' late mother's half-sister, a tall, fashionable and wealthy woman. She comes to The Dales determined to bring order, schooling and manners to her nieces, and she uses her own money to do it.
What is the thimble in Girls of the Forest?
It is Aunt Sophia's treasured gold thimble, set with a sapphire and turquoise stones. Pauline finds it when it is lost, and it becomes a symbol of the secret that passes through several hands.
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