Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Girls of St. Wode's
L. T. Meade
68/100
👎 Skip It
A genuine historical landmark in girls' school fiction, and freely available to boot — but Victorian pacing and schematic characters make this a tough read for modern audiences. Worth picking up if you have a young person with a taste for period literature, but most readers today will find it slow going. Its real home is the classroom or a literary survey of the genre.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance62
craft55
originality72
accuracy70
hype60
age-fit60
human-eye58
Penny’s verdict68
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