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'Mabel falls in love with Lennie's brother Bert, much to Lennie's chagrin. Lennie feels out of kilter with the more mature tastes of Mabel, recently returned from studying art in Paris' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 411).
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Sequel to Teens.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Related Works
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Teens : A Story of Australian School Girls
London
:
Andrew Melrose
,
1897
Z1601939
1897
single work
novel
young adult
Story of 'Lenny Leighton and her best friend, Mabel James, who attend a Sydney high school. Lennie and Mabel's pleasure in each other's company, their differing family lives, and their schoolgirl enthusiasms, including founding a magazine, are shrewdly explored' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 411).
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Teens Triumphant
Sydney
:
P. R. Stephensen
,
1933
Z148064
1933
single work
novel
young adult
Describes ongoing character 'Lennie's life in London, where she, too, is studying art. Her changing fortunes and spiritual life are detailed, until she decides to return to Australia' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature 411).
Works about this Work
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Publications Received
1898
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 12 November 1898; (p. 930, 931)
— Review of Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories 1898 selected work short story ; Girls Together 1898 single work novel The reviewer writes that most of the short sketches in Beck's book had appeared previously in magazines and the best of them are about white men and brown women. Girls Together, the sequel to Teens, is reported as a 'girl's book' in a 'dainty style.'
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Publications Received
1898
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 12 November 1898; (p. 930, 931)
— Review of Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories 1898 selected work short story ; Girls Together 1898 single work novel The reviewer writes that most of the short sketches in Beck's book had appeared previously in magazines and the best of them are about white men and brown women. Girls Together, the sequel to Teens, is reported as a 'girl's book' in a 'dainty style.'
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