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Betty Baird

by Anna Hamlin WEIKEL (1865 - 1923)

Her First Reception

This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. Our heroine, Betty Baird, who is herself obsessed with reading boarding school books, is sent away to The Pines, a boarding school where at first she is ridiculed by some of the wealthier and more popular students. As time goes on, Betty silences her foes with her unique and captivating personality, and she and her new friends have many lighthearted adventures during their days at The Pines. Anna Hamlin Wikel (pen name Weikel) was herself raised by a learned clergyman, Benjamin Baird Hamlin, upon whom the character of Betty Baird's father is based. The reader is the great grand niece of the author. (Holly Jenson)

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Listen next episodes of Betty Baird:
A Feast, a Trial, a New Teacher , At Home for Christmas , Betty and Lois Talk Over the Summer , Hallowe'en , Her Commencement , Miss Jane's "Seed Picter" , The Class Election , The Masquerade , The Order of the Cup , The Play , The Return of the Shipwrecked Mariner