Hildegarde Hawthorne 3 hr 51 min read

Inside the everyday world lies another, wonderful world, the land of books, where a girl may meet the beloved heroines of story face to face.

Hildegarde Hawthorne's 1917 children's book (by Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter) is a charming literary fantasy that ushers young readers into the company of famous girls from classic literature. Warm, bookish, of its era. Read it for a gentle celebration of reading itself, guiding children into the enchanted country of stories.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 51 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

John Wolcott Adams