In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Beth Rich
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Muriels Choice is really good!! and the Discovery of Kate was enjoyable too.
I haven't seen Phyll's original post yet but yes I think Haverfield is
extremely readable. Kate Tyler says the same in The Book too. I also
prefer the
Cor, I'm stunned, not by a golf ball of course, by all these dreadful
accidents in the Haverfield books [as described by Kate], they make the
doings in the CS look quite feeble!
I've never read any Haverfield, when were her books published? They sound
quite dreadful plotwise, do they 'read'
Nursing, flower-arranging and the importance of Bovril
Nursing skills are an important character trait in determining whether a
girl is a good sort, one of the ways in which Haverfield uses injury as
a means of bringing two girls together as friends.
In The Discovery of Kate, Dilys StOswald,
(Does anyone know what a cup of Benger is?)
Benger's food was (still available??) invalid food - powder mixed with
hot milk to make what could be described as a thick milky drink or
rather thin porridge. It was very easily digestible - I think it was
given to babies as well as invalids. Don't
Subject: RE: [GO] WSVS E L Haverfield part 2 (fwd)
(Does anyone know what a cup of Benger is?)
Benger's food was (still available??) invalid food - powder mixed with
hot milk to make what could be described as a thick milky drink or
rather thin porridge. It was very easily digestible - I think
