Twentieth Century Girl (My Story)

Carol Drinkwater First published 2001

About this book

22 December 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be.

Subjects

  • children's fiction
  • diaries, fiction
  • great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • social conditions
  • women