Dorothy Dale’s Queer Holidays

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Dorothy Dale’s Queer Holidays includes: The Same Old Tavia; What Happened to Tavia; A Light in the Window; The Tangled Web She Wove; Shopping and Shoplifters; Who Stole the Ring; The Haunted Woods; A Magazine Ghost; The Little Woman in Black; The Thorns of a Holly Wreath; Gathering Evergreens; The Scream from the Castle; College Boys and Glenwood Girls; Tavia’s Troubles; Dorothy as a Comforter; A Delicate Discovery; Spruce Boughs and Laurel Wreaths; Dorothy’s Distress; Between the Lines; The Entertainment; A Strange Confession; Stormbound at Tanglewood; The Ghost that Really Walked; The Rescue; Youth and Old Age; The Day Before Christmas; and All is Well.

Most of these works were created by Lilian Garis. The sequels of Dorothy Dale was issued by the Stratemeyer Syndicate making use of the house stage name Margaret Penrose. This was Stratemeyer’s earliest “Girls Series”.

The Dorothy Dale series include: Dorothy Dale: A Girl of Today; Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School; Dorothy Dale’s Great Secret; Dorothy Dale and Her Chums; Dorothy Dale’s Queer Holidays; Dorothy Dale’s Camping Days; Dorothy Dale’s School Rivals; Dorothy Dale in the City; Dorothy Dale’s Promise; Dorothy Dale in the West; Dorothy Dale’s Strange Discovery; Dorothy Dale’s Engagement; and Dorothy Dale to the Rescue.

Lilian C. McNamara, better known as Lilian C. Garis was a United States writer who scribbled innumerable works of children’s stories. Before becoming a writer, she was a broadcaster for the Newark Evening News in New Jersey.

For the Stratemeyer Syndicate she composed using the pen name Margaret Penrose and Laura Lee Hope, with her books containing many of the first stories in the series of Bobbsey Twins along with the series of Dorothy Dale. But Mrs. Garis also composed a few pieces using her real name. Her husband, Howard Roger Garis was also a Syndicate scriber and DJ on WNJR. Her kids Roger and Cleo also authored children’s stories.
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