“These books allow them to slip back into a world where it wasn’t expected.”Ĭabot, novelist and columnist Anna Quindlen, and crime writer Laura Lippman have each written a foreword to one of the three reissues from HarperCollins (the reissues comprise the last six Betsy-Tacy books). Plenty of girls today “are freaked out about sex,” Cabot says. In an age when teenagers openly discuss blow jobs, she found Betsy’s concerns about, say, holding hands with boys oddly empowering. Author Meg Cabot first read Lovelace’s books while writing The Princess Diaries. But otherwise the same!Ĭertainly the pressures Betsy and her friends faced were as emotionally mind-boggling to them as the ones facing young women today. And, okay, no Lady Gaga cameos or gay men or fornication. Think Serena and Blair of Gossip Girl with lower hemlines and smaller budgets. In ten novels, Lovelace followed turn-of-the-century best friends Betsy Ray and Tacy Kelly from age 5 to their respective weddings. Maud Hart Lovelace’s books were old-fashioned even when they started coming out in 1940.
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