The Head of the House of Coombe and Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I’ve read A Little Princess before but after this — after this! — why couldn’t this title have been published more widely? This was, truly, a wonderful book! I felt compelled to read this after Jenny’s post on her blog and I just had to read it. The Head of the House of Coombe and Robin have got to be one of the better pre- and post-war novels out there. And it’s not overly-dramatic. The characters have their own problems they had to defeat but it just made them all the better. While most of Robin’s development happens in the first novel, Lord Coombe actually has his small realizations regarding his own development (which is slightly ironic, given their titles). The two of them are my favorite characters in the two-novel series, though Lord Coombe probably being the most interesting!
Tags: Frances Hodgson Burnett
April 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I’m glad you liked it! But did you kind of think the end of Robin was a teeny bit spiritual-tract-y?
April 27th, 2008 at 8:09 am
@Jenny - yeah, she was. I think it might have been because the author was into Spiritualism in one point? I’m not exactly sure if that was when she wrote THotHoC but I did read that she got into it sometime later in her life.