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An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1869, which follows the adventures of Polly Milton, a young country girl, who is visiting her wealthy city friends, the Shaws. The novel shows how Polly remains true to herself despite the pressure the Shaws' world puts on her shoulders.
- Louisa May Alcott
- Fiction, romance, friendship
- 1869
- 1869
Polly Milton is a fourteen-year-old country girl raised on old-fashioned values and invited to Boston for an extended stay with her friend, Fanny Shaw. Quite the unlikely friendship since Fanny, despite being only two years older, is no longer just a girl, not poor, and not old-fashioned.
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15 de mai. de 2022 · An old-fashioned girl. Louisa M [ay] Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl (1st edition) (Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, 1870; OCLC 632728863 ). Source: Google Books ( https://books.google.com/books?id=g2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP13 ).
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The "Old-Fashioned Girl" is not intended as a perfect model, but as a possible improvement upon the Girl of the Period, who seems sorrowfully ignorant or ashamed of the good old fashions which make woman truly beautiful and honored, and, through her, render home what it should be,–a happy place, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to love and know and help one another.
An Old-Fashioned Girl. Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, fancy clothes and some other habits she considers weird and, mostly, unlikable.
Books. An Old-fashioned Girl. Louisa May Alcott, Jane Dyer. Little, Brown, 1997 - Juvenile Fiction - 325 pages. When Polly Milton visits Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time, she's overwhelmed by the modern and fashionable world around her.
