Lilian Bell: 14 books

Carolina Lee is a novel by Lilian Bell.  Author of "Hope Loring," "Abroad with the Jimmies," "At Home with the Jardines," etc. With a frontispiece in colour by DORA WHEELER KEITH Published by A. WESSELS COMPANY in 1907.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Carolina Lee. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Lilian Bell, which...

ON THE WAY In this day and generation, when everybody goes to Europe, it is difficult to discover the only person who never has been there. But I am that one, and therefore the stir it occasioned in the bosom of my amiable family when I announced that I, too, was about to join the vast majority, is not...

A tale of a young woman in the Old South.

OUR HOUSE-BOAT AT HENLEY It speaks volumes for an amiability I have always claimed for myself through sundry fierce disputes on the subject with my sister, that, even after two years of travel in Europe with her and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie, they should still wish for my company for a journey across France...

A tale of a young southern woman who was born in Paris, France, and was moved to the historical South.  This makes her different from her companions, in more ways than one.  A tightly woven romance of Southern life and lifestyle.  

The "Jimmies" are an American married couple, and those who go with them on this journey of odd adventures are the narrator and her married sister, Bee, who left her husband and child at home, and seems to have forgotten them, judging from her attentions to a duke and to certain fine looking...

It is a pity that there is no prettier term to bestow upon a girl bachelor of any age than Old Maid. “Spinster” is equally uncomfortable, suggesting, as it does, corkscrew curls and immoderate attenuation of frame; while “maiden lady,” which the ultra-punctilious substitute, is entirely too mincing...

WITH MANY APPREHENSIONS TO THE DULL READER WHO WILL INSIST UPON TAKING THIS BOOK LITERALLY

CAPTAIN WINCHESTER LEE Having been born in Paris, Carolina tried to make the best of it, but being a very ardent little American girl, she always felt that her foreign birth was something which must be lived down, so when people asked her where she was born, her reply was likely to be: "Well, I was born...