The first edition of this book is dated 1900. The edition used is dated 1900. The publisher was Blackie and son limited, London, Glasgow, Dublin. The number of pages is 183.

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General information

This charming little book was expressly written for younger children, aged about 11 or 12. There’s plenty in the book for children of that age to enjoy, but older children might be a bit impatient.

Susan and her family live in London, but she has a brother of ten years old who has a nasty chronic illness, and is bed-ridden. His family are advised to take him for the rest of the winter to a warmer climate, so his mother takes him to Algiers. During this interlude Susan is to go to stay with a great-aunt who lives at Ramsgate, a small town by the sea in the eastern part of Kent, the county of England to the south-est of London.

There are several other girls staying with the aunt, two of them a bit older than Susan, grown-up, almost, while Sophia Jane is Susan’s age. Sophia Jane appears to have what we would now call behavioural problems, but during the course of the book we learn to see her in a better light, and it is Susan who can be not altogether excellent.

Both little girls learn a lot about life from each other.

Intertwined with the story are the affairs of a charming French brother and sister. We won’t give away more of the story than that. Enjoy the book.

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Contents

Chapter I.
“My Aunt Enticknapp.“

Chapter II.
“Sophia Jane.“

Chapter III.
Monsieur La Roche.

Chapter IV.
“Half-a-Crown.“

Chapter V.
Susan’s mind was very full of all this, and she was still watching her companion with suspicion, when something happened which gave her thoughts a new direction; for shortly after the strange minister had preached at the chapel, Sophia Jane became very ill.

Chapter VI.
Sophia Jane posts a Letter, and Susan pays a Visit.

Chapter VII.
“Captain Enticknapp.“

Chapter VIII.
Shrimps and Good-Byes.

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