Gertrude Hall Brownell’s The Nowadays Girls in the Adirondacks follows a lively group of young women who head into the Adirondack Mountains for a summer of outdoor adventure, friendship, and self-discovery. The novel captures both the beauty of the wilderness setting and the spirit of an era when active, independent young women were becoming a celebrated ideal in fiction for girls.
A pleasant period piece, the book offers warmth, gentle humour, and vivid descriptions of camp life and nature. Readers who enjoy early twentieth-century girls’ adventure stories will find much to like here. Download the free EPUB and join the Nowadays Girls on their summer escape to the mountains.