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The Girl's Own Paper

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The Girl's Own Paper (G.O.P.)was a British story paper catering to girls and young women, published from 1880 until 1956. [1]

22 relations: Angela Brazil, Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, Emma Orczy, Fanny Fern, Flora Klickmann, Kate Marsden, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Movie star, Noel Streatfeild, Project Gutenberg, Religious Tract Society, Richmal Crompton, Rosa Nouchette Carey, Sarah Doudney, School story, Story paper, The Boy's Own Paper, The Lutterworth Press, W. E. Johns, World War I, World War II, Worrals.

Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil (pronounced "brazzle") (30 November 1868 – 13 March 1947) was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction.

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Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (January 31, 1868 – March 18, 1942) was an American author of the early 20th century.

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Emma Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright.

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Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis (July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s.

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Flora Klickmann

Emily Flora Klickmann (26 January 1867 – 20 November 1958) was an English journalist, author and editor.

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Kate Marsden

Kate Marsden (13 May 1859 – 26 May 1931) was a British missionary, explorer, writer and nursing heroine.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Movie star

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Religious Tract Society

The Religious Tract Society, founded 1799, 56 Paternoster Row and 65 St.

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Richmal Crompton

Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was initially trained as a schoolmistress but later became a popular English writer, best known for her Just William series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books.

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Rosa Nouchette Carey

Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 – 9 July 1909) was an English children's writer and popular novelist, whose works reflected the values of her time and were thought of as wholesome for girls.

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Sarah Doudney

Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford)Charlotte Mitchell,, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, retrieved 11 July 2008 was an English novelist, short-story writer and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymn-writer.

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School story

The school story is a fiction genre centering on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Story paper

A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers.

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The Boy's Own Paper

The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.

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The Lutterworth Press

The Lutterworth Press, one of the oldest independent British publishing houses, has traded since the late eighteenth century - initially as the Religious Tract Society (RTS).

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W. E. Johns

William Earl Johns (5 February 189321 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worrals

Flight Officer Joan Worralson, better known as "Worrals", is a fictional character created by W. E. Johns, more famous for his series of books about the airman Biggles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl's_Own_Paper

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