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How do you enjoy a last year with your closest friends when every shared pleasure brings goodbye a little nearer?
Molly Brown and her circle begin their final year at college with friendship at the heart of their days. Study, mischief and familiar customs fill their world. Molly's kindness and good humor draw others toward her, while the approaching farewell gives ordinary moments a new sweetness.
In Nell Speed's Molly Brown's Senior Days, the future presses gently into the present. Plans and hopes raise questions about ambition and loyalty. Parties, traditions and quiet evenings matter all the more because they cannot last. This is a warm college story about growing up without taking friendship for granted.
What you’ll discover
- A circle of friends Spend time among close companions whose friendships give college life its warmth and meaning.
- Kindness at the center Meet Molly, whose good humor and caring nature make her someone others turn to.
- The pull of tomorrow Explore the tension between personal ambition and loyalty as life beyond college draws closer.
- Pleasures worth holding close Enjoy traditions, parties and quiet evenings made more precious by the knowledge of leaving.
- A gentle growing up Feel the bittersweet joy of a final year shaped by affection, hope and farewell.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you love school and college stories, close circles of friends, warm humor, small mysteries on a campus, and heroines who find their voice step by step.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- The Old Crowd Returns to Wellington
- A Sick Professor and a Strange Debt
- Adele Windsor Enters the Circle
- The Stolen Lunch and the Man Who Came Instead
- Molly Finds a Pen and a Possible Path
- Judy Goes Too Far
- Snakey-Noodles and the Showdown
- What the Story Is Really About
- How the Story Is Told
Who’s who
- Molly BrownA warm, red-haired Kentucky girl who loves to write, fears she cannot, and wants to avoid becoming a schoolteacher.
- Judy KeanMolly's dramatic, impulsive friend with a vivid imagination, who falls under a dangerous new friend's spell.
- Nance OldhamThe blunt, serious and loyal friend who watches over Molly and Judy and distrusts Adele from the start.
- Otoyo SenA small, formal Japanese student who loves her friends and wants them to think well of her father.
- Adele WindsorA clever New York student who wins friends with flattery and wants a place in the college clubs.
- Professor Edwin GreenThe English professor whose kind advice Molly values, and who falls ill and worries about her future.
- Jimmy LuftonA cheerful New York reporter who comes to Wellington as a substitute and offers Molly a way into newspaper work.
- Miss WalkerThe wise President of Wellington, who wants to keep the college's standards high while treating her girls fairly.
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Molly Brown's Senior Days
by Nell Speed · 1914
Molly Brown's last year at Wellington brings a stolen lunch, a campus ghost and a dangerous new friend for Judy.
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Molly Brown's Senior Days is a college novel by Nell Speed, the fourth book in the Molly Brown series. It follows Molly and her close friends through their last year at Wellington College, a women's college with a quadrangle, cloisters and a lake.
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The Old Crowd Returns to Wellington
The book opens on the first night of term in No. 5 Quadrangle. Molly stands at the window and wonders how the old crowd will bear to part after four years. Judy strums a guitar, and Nance arranges books on new shelves. Soon the others arrive: Margaret, Jessie, the Williams sisters and little Otoyo Sen, who glides in on soft slippers.
The girls tease Jessie about two rings on her finger. Otoyo then announces that Wellington will hold a jubilee for its fiftieth birthday. Her news comes from Andy McLean, a young man at nearby Exmoor College.
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What is Molly Brown's Senior Days about?
It follows Molly Brown and her friends through their final year at Wellington College. Pranks, a visiting reporter, a troublemaking student and a campus ghost fill the year, while Molly wonders what to do after graduation.
Who is Adele Windsor in Molly Brown's Senior Days?
Adele is a stylish New York student whom Judy befriends. She is clever and charming, but she uses flattery and hints to cause trouble among the friends, and Molly distrusts her.
What does snakey-noodles mean in the book?
Snakey-noodles is a family name for a coiled pastry with raisins and cinnamon made by the Browns' cook. The word becomes a clue that helps Molly face a rival with quiet confidence.
The author
Nell Speed
1878–1913 · American children's writer
Nell Speed (1878–1913) was a writer who lived in the United States. She wrote fiction for young readers in the early twentieth century. Her name appeared on the Molly Brown series, published in the 1910s. Molly Brown's Senior Days is one of the books published under her name.
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