Patsy's Progress

x, 275 pp. Color frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy, mirrored on jacket; endpapers by Reginald Birch. Rose B. Knox was a popular American children's author of the early to mid-twentieth century. This is a coming of age story for girls. Rose B. Knox here offers the vivid story of a young Southern girl of the Gay Nineties. Patsy Kirkland loved all the fair and familiar things about life in a small Southern town--parties, dancing under flickering Japanese lanterns, driving in trap or buggy behind a smart team of bays, strolling beneath frilled parasol while gallant beaux paid pretty compliments, listening to romantic serenades. But Patsy wanted more than this. She dreamed of a career of her own.