![]() ![]() ![]() Party, her mother makes her first silk dress, “checked tan and pink, with laceĪround the neck and sleeves.” More interesting is the description of what came Growing up in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the 20th century, theīooks are overflowing with descriptions of clothing, hairstyles, and fads. Betsy’s high school journal entries are often verbatim copies of Maud’s, and many of the books’ illustrations are clearly derived from Lovelace’s personal photographs.Īnother fair question! The books begin with Betsy’s fifth birthday in 1897 andĮnds with her husband’s enlistment in the war. Why review a beloved children’s series for a costume newsletter? It’s a fair question, one the author partially answered herself: “in these Betsy-Tacy stories, I love to work from real incidents.” The Betsy-Tacy books were based closely upon author Maud Lovelace’s own life, and almost all of Betsy’s adventures were also Maud’s. The re-released Betsy-Tacy as an audiobooks ![]()
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