Twenty Years Ago: From the Journal of a Girl in Her Teens (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Twenty Years Ago: From the Journal of a Girl in Her Teens

This book is - as it purports to be - the bond fide Journal of a girl in her teens, kept by her during a short residence in Paris twenty years ago. It was put into my hands just to amuse me, and I found it so interesting that I suggest ed its being recopied, with any alteration of names or disguise of incidents that was thought advisable, and sent back to me, subject to what ever editorial excisions I might deem necessary.

This was done; but my task has been light, for little was required. A few sentences con densed or transposed, an explanatory line added here and there, and the general supervision of a practiced author over a work originally not meant for publication - this was all. I have let the girl speak for herself. I have not even modified her passionate political opinions; they are true to girl-nature and a part of herself.

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