Bab: A Sub-Deb
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company, 1917
Description
(from A. L. Burt reprint)
What is a Sub-Deb?
A sub-deb is that most effervescent and entertaining personage in the entire world – a sweet young girl “somewhere in her teens” – just ready for life, yet theoretically an onlooker in the game of life because she has not made her social début.
But Bab is not only an on-looker.
She is intensely alive – a girl-woman, romantic, adventurous, loyal. Such a girl as yours and mine – such a girl as our sons will marry – such a girl as only this day and generation have brought forth.
This is Bab – a -Sub-Deb --- the girl beloved, Mrs. Rinehart’s most humorous, engaging character creation.
You will enjoy the “mirth” of this story.
Notes
Delightful. One of the best of the unreliable narrators. Bab is a force of nature.
Tags
Genre/Tone: comedy, comfort-read, unreliable narrator
Location/Setting: America
Narrative Form (special): diary/journal
Narrative Voice: first-person
Recommend: recommended
Relationship Convention: f/m
Time Set: 1910-1919
Time Written: 1910-1919
Tropes: screwball
Character 1: American, robust, young, student
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