Miss Bobbie by Ethel Turner (c1910)

Miss Bobbie

by Ethel Turner

illustrated by Harold Copping

Ward Lock & Co., c1910, black and white illustrated plates, illustrations in text, gilt decorated boards and spine, hardcover

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, front endpaper and possibly frontispiece removed, no inscriptions, rubbing, chipping and wear in general to covers and spine, some foxing (see photographs)

“When Roberta Lennox, "Miss Bobbie" to Dr Wallace and his five sons, comes to stay with them at Parsonage in Sydney, the boys are apprehensive. Their friends tell them that their sisters are always dusting and tiding after them-and besides, they fear Miss Bobbie will not be able to play cricket. Not only does Miss Bobbie learn to play cricket, she soon joins them in chopping down trees, clearing out bird cages and while enthusiastically climbing, tears her best dress and silk stockings. Dr Wallace observes 'the quiet, shy, well behaved little girl had vanished completely: for all the world his charge might have been one of his own mischievous sons dressed up."