Three Margarets

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 227K words
Chapters: 23

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Three Margarets by Laura Elizabeth Howe RichardsAuthor: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Aug 10, 2007

Editor's review

Three Margarets is a young-adult work by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and a classic girls' novel in the public domain. Richards was a prolific American children's author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and this work continues the narrative tradition centered on family, growing up, and friendship among girls. As a free Project Gutenberg eBook, its value lies first in accessibility: readers can read an old-fashioned girls' story with the flavor of its era at no cost. The plot, which revolves around three girls who share the same name, makes it a light-reading sample of young-adult literature of the period. The style is rather classical, with sentence patterns and vocabulary bearing the marks of 19th-century English reading matter, making it an introductory text for English learners encountering old-fashioned written English. In terms of reading situations, it is better suited to relaxed bedtime reading,分段 reading on a short commute, or as supplementary text for studying early American children's literature, gender writing, and the circulation of public-domain eBooks. Note that the Project Gutenberg edition provides the original English text, and the materials give no information on illustrations or notes, so readers should be prepared to face the original text directly.

Who it's for

A good fit for

General readers interested in early American young-adult literature
English learners who want light reading in public-domain English originals
Students studying late 19th- to early 20th-century girls' fiction and gender writing
Teachers needing free electronic texts as supplementary extensive-reading material

Not a good fit for

Readers looking for contemporary fast-paced coming-of-age novels
Beginners with weak English who are unwilling to look up old-fashioned vocabulary

Reading tips

Read the first chapter to clarify the relationships and situations of the three girls who share a name, then decide your reading pace.
When you meet old-fashioned expressions, don't look them up immediately; grasp the plot first and deal with vocabulary after finishing a section.
Read a short background piece on 19th-century American children's literature to help understand the family and girl-character setup.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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Is this book in Chinese or English?

According to the materials, the book is in English; it is an English eBook released by Project Gutenberg, not a Chinese translation. Readers need some English reading ability or a dictionary to help them.

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The materials show that Project Gutenberg was an early provider of free eBooks, founded by Michael Hart in 1971. This book is a public-domain electronic text it released, available free of charge, but the edition information mentions no illustrations, notes, or introduction.

Is it suitable for learning English?

It can serve as extensive-reading material, but the language has the style of 19th- to early 20th-century English reading matter, with rather old sentence patterns and vocabulary. It is best used by readers at intermediate level or above, with a dictionary at hand, and is not suitable as a beginner's first reader.

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Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943 Author

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850–1943) was an American writer of children's literature and biography. Public information is limited, and few details of her life are recorded here, yet her work offers a clear sense of her range. She wrote children's stories such as Captain January and Toto's Merry Winter, told in a bright, warm style suited to young readers, and also produced biographical writing, including Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, which traces a life and its era. The collection holds 45 of her works, spanning children's fiction and biography, with historical portraits such as Abigail Adams and Her Times, showing a writer who combined popular narrative with careful attention to historical sources.