THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER
Vol. XX.—No. 1029.]
[Price One Penny.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1899.
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ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY.
VARIETIES.
THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.
THE PLEASURES OF BEE-KEEPING.
THREE GIRL-CHUMS, AND THEIR LIFE IN LONDON ROOMS.
LETTERS FROM A LAWYER.
OUR LILY GARDEN.
“UPS AND DOWNS.”
SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.
SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
DIAPER DESIGNS FOR EMBROIDERY.
ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY.
WRITING A NEW STORY FOR “THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER.”
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In an age when many books on every sortof subject and vexed question are being dailylaunched into the world, it is a relief to turn tothe pure, wholesome novels of Rosa NouchetteCarey, the popular authoress, who has steadilyheld her ground with her public since the productionof her first book, Nellie’s Memories,composed and related verbally to her sister,while yet in her teens, though not actuallywritten until some few years later.
The youngest girl but one of a family ofseven, and in her girlhood delicate in health,which caused her education to be somewhatdesultory, Rosa Carey soon displayed an aptitudefor composing fiction and little playswhich she and her sister acted, one of herchief amusements being to select favouritecharacters from history and from fiction, andtrying to personify them, while her greatestpleasure was to relate short stories to thissame younger sister over their needlework. Itis a strange fact that, during her simple, happy,uneventful girlhood, chiefly spent in reading,in writing poetry, and in other girlish occupations,Rosa Carey, who was of a somewhatdreamy and romantic disposition, feeling theimpossibility of combining her favourite pursuitswith a useful domestic life, and discouragedby her failures in this respect, madea deliberate and, as it afterwards proved, afruitless attempt to quench her longing towrite. This unnatural repression, however, ofa strong instinct could not be conquered, andafter some years she yielded to it