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Samantha’s books in chronological order

The Lilac Tunnel: My Journey with Samantha

Meet Samantha

Samantha Learns a Lesson

Samantha’s Winter Party (short story)

Samantha’s Surprise

Samantha and the Missing Pearls (short story) Takes place during Samantha’s Surprise

Samantha Saves the Wedding (short story)

Samantha’s Blue Bicycle (short story)

Samantha’s Special Talent (short story)

Happy Birthday, Samantha!

Samantha Saves the Day

Changes for Samantha

Nellie’s Promise

Samantha’s Ocean Liner Adventure (’travel scrapbook’) Takes place during Nellie’s Promise

Samantha’s Surprising Birthday (magazine play)

The Curse of Ravenscourt (mystery)

The Stolen Sapphire (mystery)

Clue in the Castle Tower (mystery)

Danger in Paris (mystery)

The Cry of the Loon (mystery)

Real Stories From My Time: The Titanic

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Marie-Grace and Cécile! These two will always hold a special place in my heart- they are the two dolls whose stories I’ve enjoyed the most! I absolutely adore them ☺️ What do you think they are discussing?

#break from the sam and nellie content #these two are probably the pairing next most important to me #cécile rey #marie-grace gardner

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move out of the way, kira’s gay aunts, turns out there was canonically queer side characters in american girl since 2000

#edith guerrier #edith brown #look i know that you have to be in the know to understand that they’re queer from what’s in the book #but it’s INSANE to me that this author chose real life people in a boston marriage and like. slipped them in??? #american girl #american girl doll #agblr #ag #from my slate #kira bailey #kira bailey 2021 #under copp’s hill #american girl history mysteries

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Link to an article about their Boston Marriage!

Edith Guerrier

Submitted by Margaret Bausman, Assistant Professor & Interim Acting Head Librarian of The Social Work and Public Health Library, Hunter College (NY) Libraries.

Edith Guerrier (1870-1958)

A librarian of distinction, Edith Guerrier’s career spanned over 60 years.  During the Progressive Era (1900-1920), Miss Guerrier engaged in a style of reform-oriented community librarianship in Boston’s North End.  In collaboration with her life partner, artist Edith Brown, and financial patron, Helen Osborne Storrow, Miss Guerrier established a unique program of girls’ reading groups, the most notable of which was the Saturday Evening Girls, or SEG.  

The SEG was comprised of girls and young women from Boston’s Jewish and Italian immigrant communities.  The members participated in a program emulating the core aspects of a progressive liberal arts education representing a course of study otherwise not readily available in this setting or to this demographic.  

Under the leadership of Miss Guerrier and Miss Brown, the SEG founded the Paul Revere Pottery in 1908, an entrepreneurial and reform oriented enterprise in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement.  In this experiment, the young women of the SEG produced high quality, custom-made art pottery in the form of tableware, vases and tiles.  They established a working art studio and residence in keeping with the settlement house movement ideology of the time, a central component in the social reform movement of the Progressive Era.

Anecdotal evidence reveals that as a group the members of the SEG went on to pursue higher education, to enter professional careers and to achieve a middle class status at far higher rates than their peers or middle class counter-parts of the day.  Although the Paul Revere Pottery closed in 1942, the work it produced continues to represent high quality Arts and Crafts commodities and is highly sought after by collectors of this medium.

Reading:

Gadsden, Nonni. Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery. Boston, MA: Museum of Arts Publishing, 2006.

Guerrier, Edith. An Independent Woman: The Autobigraphy of Edith Guerrier. Ed. Molly Matson. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

Larson, Kate Clifford. “The Saturday Evening Girls: A Progressive Era Library Club and the Intellectual Life of Working Class and Immigrant Girls in Turn-of-the-Century Boston.” Library Quarterly 71.2 (2001): 195-230.

#edith brown #edith guerrier #american girl history mysteries #i still cannot believe this is true omfg #ag #agblr #american girl #american girl doll

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OH MY GOD THEY WERE REAL PEOPLE AND THEY WERE “LIFE PARTNERS”?!???

I’M LOSING MY FREAKING MIND, NEW QUEER AMERICAN GIRL CANON JUST DROPPED

i’ve been re-reading the american girl history mysteries on and off here and well. let’s just say that miss brown and miss guerrier from “under copp’s hill” sure seem gay

#i’ll reblog a post i found found about miss guerrier #but oh my god #oh my fucking god i cannot believe i was right #edith guerrier #edith brown #looking back section you are a GODSEND #american girl #american girl doll #ag #agblr #american girl history mysteries #from my slate

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I had a really weird dream last night that involved the American Girl Historical characters. It was like, there were these other historical girl characters from some other brand that weren't very historically accurate so the AG girlies were like spawning from their universe to this other universe in this weird ripple thing to teach the historically incorrect characters how to be more accurate and how to be better at their jobs basically lol. They were in this weird high school and Molly was blind for some reason and Kit and Samantha kept merging into one person.

#yeah that sounds about right #samantha parkington #kit kittredge #molly mcintire

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#samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #babies!!!! #illustrations

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The Beautiful Blue Bicycle/Samantha’s Blue Bicycle

First published in March/April 1995

Illustrations by Deborah Chabrian

(The illustrations have changed between the magazine and short story version and let me tell you, the book illustrations suuuuuuck

But regardless, you can see the book illustrations by Dan Andreasen over here)

#scary and evil illustrations #samantha parkington #uncle gard #illustrations #aunt cornelia #grandmary #agnes pitt #agatha pitt

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i’ve been re-reading the american girl history mysteries on and off here and well. let’s just say that miss brown and miss guerrier from “under copp’s hill” sure seem gay

#i’m only a few chapters in so let’s see how this develops #but they share an apartment together #and are running a settlement house together #a notoriously queer activity #also this book is set in boston so like #in my mind the author is making a joke about boston marriages #american girl history mysteries #books #from my slate #ag #agblr #american girl #american girl doll

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#mash my beloved…

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Samantha’s Winter Party

Illustrations by Dan Andreason

#my beloved<3 #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #illustrations

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oh dear god the trad wives have gotten ahold of my posts

#like did this person take even a second to look at my blog??? #this is in response to the latest poll btw #american girl #samantha parkington #ag #agblr #american girl doll #from my slate

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The original Samantha portraits, for reasons you should know if you’ve read the info on Addy’s older portraits.

And once again, this isn’t all the character portraits, but I’ll update this post as I scan them in.

Last post in the queue! :< Not 100% sure what I’ll have to offer with the next batch of queue goodies, but I think I’ll finally be able to update the original posts of Felicity’s illustrations with Brown-hair Elizabeth and make 1-2 posts showing off Blondebeth over the weekend. 

#samantha parkington #illustrations #nellie o'malley #grandmary #uncle gard #aunt cornelia #agnes pitt #agatha pitt

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Samantha’s Portraits

Illustrations by Dan Andreason

(You can see what I have of the original portraits here)

(I’ll add any missing portraits from this set and the other as soon as I get hold of it)

#samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #grandmary #aunt cornelia #uncle gard #illustrations #agnes pitt #agatha pitt

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another day without the babbity kate video on samantha…

#samantha parkington #you have no idea how intensely i’m waiting for this video #i’m going to lose my mind when it comes out #from my slate #agblr #american girl doll #american girl #ag

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I think Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Samantha Parkington and Nellie O’Malley would be friends

#REAL #sam and nellie are just different versions of anne tbh #and like anne = nellie #sam = diana #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley