Excerpt from 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.