Product Description

22 December 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place! A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #388544 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Brilliant diary novel!
This book, I think, is good for girls aged 9-14 who think life wasn't fair for girls and women during the Victorian era. It si about a young lady named Flora Bonnington who is aware and questioning of the social injustices going on in 19th Century Britain. Her father disapproves of rights for women but Flora is urged on by her grandmother, a socialist. This a thrilling novel and can teach you, like the other my story books, about the period of this diary.

Fly back to the past with this excellent book
This novel is excellent as you get to learn a bit about how it would be like to live in those times. In addition to this, it is great how you can read a diary about someones life in that era. Like most of the books in the 'My Story' collection, they are very interesting and appropriate for revision on History. I admire the way that the illustrater has drawn the front cover as it looks old and a lot like a diary. They are a lot like the Royal Diaries which are also fascinating, they even have gold pages! I would reccommend this book to girls aged 10 to 14. This book is excellent so read it!!!!!

a very good book
flora bonnington is a fouteen year old at the beggining of the twentieth century,she keeps her diary for a year, she writes of cinematographs,suffregette meetings and her girly older sister and her father ,who maneges bonnigtons dock and her granmother, lady violet campbell.

this book is complecated, but if you understand it, very good. I ahve read loads of my story books and this is one of my favorates.