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A red rose and a tiger lily: what might bring two very different girls together?
In Red Rose and Tiger Lily, L. T. Meade places friendship, family, and finding your place at the heart of a story for young readers. The title suggests two contrasting girls, inviting you to wonder how their differences might shape a bond between them.
This children's classic belongs to the world of Victorian girls' fiction, where home and kin help shape a heroine's choices. Meade's story offers the warm themes and gentle moral tone that draw readers to tales of growing up, meeting others, and learning who you are.
What you’ll discover
- Two flowers, contrasting characters Consider how a rose and a tiger lily suggest different ways of being.
- Friendship at the heart Explore the promise of a bond between girls who may seem unlike each other.
- The pull of family Enter a kind of story where home and kin matter to a heroine's choices.
- Finding a place Follow the theme of belonging through a tale of friendship, family, and growing up.
- A gentle Victorian spirit Spend time with the warm concerns and gentle moral tone of Victorian girls' fiction.
Who will love it
Readers who love warm family stories, lively sisters and brothers, schoolgirl friendships, English country houses and gentle old-fashioned humour, and anyone who enjoys watching a good heart learn to face the truth.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Two sisters come home to the Grange
- A father leaves and the Lorrimers appear
- A picnic, a promise and a walk
- A fall from a rotten branch
- Annie takes charge of a sickroom
- A letter, a party and a mystery in London
- Lies, a ball and a man under an oak
- A stepmother, a rival and a priestess of art
- A schemer with a gift for getting her own way
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Annie ForestA lovely, impulsive head girl from Lavender House who means well, acts too fast, and carries a secret about a borrowed ring.
- Hester ThorntonSeventeen, calm and loyal, she runs her father's house and hides a deep wish to keep her dead mother's place.
- Nan ThorntonHester's eight-year-old sister, a chattering, fearless girl with golden hair who dreads the thought of a stepmother.
- Nell LorrimerA thin, dreamy child called the ugly duckling, who loves ponies and storybooks and feels more than she says.
- Molly LorrimerThe eldest Lorrimer girl, practical and unselfish, who fears for her father and for the home she loves.
- Antonia Bernard TempleA bony, untidy art student who talks about nothing but Art, and who has a fierce gift for getting her own way.
- Squire LorrimerA cheerful old-fashioned squire who loves his ten children and dreads losing the Towers, his ancestral home.
- Sir John ThorntonA rich, cold and exact widower who likes order and quiet and plans to marry again.
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Rosa rossa e giglio tigrato
by L. T. Meade · 1894
Annie Forest pawns a borrowed ring for three cambric dresses, then needs thirty-two shillings to set things right.
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Red Rose and Tiger Lily is a novel by L. T. Meade, who wrote many stories for girls in the late nineteenth century. It follows on from her earlier school story A World of Girls and returns to some of its people.
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Two sisters come home to the Grange
The story opens at the Grange on a perfect summer evening. Hester Thornton, seventeen and steady, waits on the drive for her little sister Nan, who is coming home from school. Their father, Sir John, is a cold and exact man who likes order and quiet. He tells Hester he dreads Nan's arrival, because Nan loves surprises and noise, and he prefers the calm daughter who runs his house.
Nan arrives with a surprise of her own. Annie Forest, Hester's close friend from school, has come a day early. The three girls walk up to the house, and Hester is happier than she has been for a year. Annie is lovely to look at and full of life, and Nan has soft dark eyes and golden hair that falls below her waist.
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What is Red Rose and Tiger Lily about?
It follows Annie Forest, a warm and impulsive schoolgirl, during a summer holiday at the Grange. A broken promise, a borrowed ring and a family's money trouble draw two households together, and an odd art student sets out to help.
Who are the red rose and the tiger lily?
Antonia sees Annie Forest as a red rose, sweetly pretty and full of tact. Antonia Bernard Temple names herself the fierce tiger lily. The two girls become allies in a plan to save the Lorrimers' home.
Is Red Rose and Tiger Lily a sequel?
It is the follow-up to L. T. Meade's school story A World of Girls, and it brings back Annie Forest, Hester Thornton and Nan. The author gives a short reminder, so a new reader can follow it easily.
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