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Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer. She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises, while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her, bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he conquers her.
Booklist 17:70 N ’20
“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w
“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 210w
CHAPIN, CHARLES. Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam
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