Re: [h-cost] Samantha, was Puffed sleeves

2005-10-18 Thread Jacqueline Johnson
The Samantha books can be read online at project Gutenberg. You can also find copies fairly easily online. They aren't true children's books although they are often cited as such. They are books for young ladies. I'd say the 13 and up crowd. I assure you however that they are well before 1960 and w

Re: [h-cost] Samantha, was Puffed sleeves

2005-10-18 Thread Kate M Bunting
That's interesting. I've never heard of this author or her character before. As far as I was aware, the name Samantha was unknown in Britain before the 1960s, (it isn't in the first edition of the "Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names") and I had been grumbling because the TV series "Foy