[Gutenberg 18896] • Faith Gartney's Girlhood

"I began this story for young girls. It has grown, as they grow, to womanhood. It makes no artistic preten sion. It is a simple record of something of the thought and life that lies between fourteen and twenty.

I dedicate it, as it is, to these young girls, who dream, and wish, and strive, and err; and find, perhaps, little help to interpret their own spirits to themselves. I be lieve and hope that there is nothing in it which shall hinder them in what is noblest and truest..."