Jean K. Baird’s Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall follows a young woman as she arrives at a school full of established social hierarchies, competing friendships, and the quietly fierce business of finding one’s place. Baird writes warmly about girls’ community life, capturing both its cruelties and its consolations with a sympathetic eye.
In the tradition of college and school fiction for women popular in the early twentieth century, the novel deals honestly with questions of belonging, ambition, and self-knowledge that remain as relevant as ever. Download the free EPUB and follow Elizabeth through the doors of Exeter Hall.