Yes! Don't he and the Swamp Angel show up at the end of Limberlost, a married couple with adorable hoodlum children? And of course the Bird Woman is in the book too - and Freckles' case full of moths, which I somehow envisioned as an entire room when really it's just a sort of wooden trunk.
Anyway. Freckles is a lonely but noble waif, much like Elnora, although without Elnora's pepperiness or her Terrible Mother (Elnora's Terrible Mother might actually be my favorite character in A Girl of the Limberlost? She's just so interestingly awful). It's a lot of fun in that delicious slightly batshit Gene Stratton Porter kind of way. (I did consider reading The Harvester, because I remembered you'd read it and found it even more bonkers than usual for GSP, but it was much longer than Freckles so I put it aside for a more convenient season.)
There may actually be three college girls books if I decide to do the "Goblin Market" retelling at a women's college circa 1900. Everyone will enjoy having a historical fantasy alongside two non-fantasy historical romances, right?
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Date: 2020-12-23 07:34 pm (UTC)Anyway. Freckles is a lonely but noble waif, much like Elnora, although without Elnora's pepperiness or her Terrible Mother (Elnora's Terrible Mother might actually be my favorite character in A Girl of the Limberlost? She's just so interestingly awful). It's a lot of fun in that delicious slightly batshit Gene Stratton Porter kind of way. (I did consider reading The Harvester, because I remembered you'd read it and found it even more bonkers than usual for GSP, but it was much longer than Freckles so I put it aside for a more convenient season.)
There may actually be three college girls books if I decide to do the "Goblin Market" retelling at a women's college circa 1900. Everyone will enjoy having a historical fantasy alongside two non-fantasy historical romances, right?