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Boston Jane
An Adventure
By Holm, Jennifer L.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06028-738-2 978-0-06028-739-9
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 6-10 Jane's doctor father has allowed his motherless daughter the freedom to do what she wants without restraints of propriety and etiquette. She enjoys a life unusual for a well-bred girl of Philadelphia in the 1840s. However, when she is 11, her conversations with a young medical student result in her decision to enroll in an academy for young ladies and learn to behave in a proper manner. William leaves Philadelphia for the Washington Territory and when Jane turns 15, he asks her to join him there as his wife. Jane and Mary, one...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Holm follows her success with Our Only May Amelia with another spunky first-person female protagonist, Miss Jane Peck, who transforms herself from a hoyden to a refined young lady at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy, then follows her fiancé to the Oregon frontier, where conditions are rather more primitive than she had expected. The shipboard death of her companion Mary is immediately followed by a farcical and somewhat strident account of Jane's attempts to practice "Etiquette, Emb...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
