Series by Sophie May (pseud. of Rebecca Sophia Clarke)
Little Prudy
Pat Pflieger's excellent Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read site
has a transcription of the most famous (and glowing) review of the
Little Prudy books, from an 1866 article, "Children's Books of
the Year," by Thomas Wentworth
Higginson. (The Prudy comments appear on pg. 243.)
Dotty Dimple
- Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's (1868)
Chapters 1-
- Dotty Dimple Out West (1868)
- Dotty Dimple at Home (1868)
- Dotty Dimple at Play (1869)
- Dotty Dimple at School (1869)
- Dotty Dimple's Flyaway (1869)
Little Prudy's Flyaway
- Little Folks Astray (1870)
- Prudy Keeping House (1870)
- Aunt Madge's Story (1871)
- Little Grandmother (1872)
- Little Grandfather (1873)
- Miss Thistledown (1873)
Flaxie Frizzle
- Flaxie Frizzle (1876)
- Doctor Papa (1877)
- Little Pitchers (1878)
- Twin Cousins (1880)
- Flaxie's Kittyleen (1883)
- Flaxie Growing Up (1884)
Little Prudy's Children
- Wee Lucy (1894)
- Jimmy Boy (1895)
- Kyzie Dunlee (1895)
- Wee Lucy's Secret (1899)
- Jimmy, Lucy, and All (1900)
- Lucy in Fairyland (1901)
Quinnebasset Girls
- Doctor's Daughter (1871)
- Our Helen (1874)
- Asbury Twins (1875)
- Quinebasset Girls (1877)
- Janet (1882)
- In Old Quinnebasset (1891)
- Joy Bells (1903)
Note: Additional information about Sophie May's series -- including information
about formats -- may be found at Kevin Greene's very detailed
Sophie May page.
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