author
Carolyn Judson Burnett
Best known for the Blue Grass Seminary Girls books, this early 20th-century writer created lively adventure stories centered on friendship, courage, and spirited young heroines. Her novels carry the fast pace and cliffhanger feel that made girls' series fiction so popular in their day.
2 Audiobooks
The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Or, Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal
by Carolyn Judson Burnett
The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Or, Shirley Willing to the Rescue
by Carolyn Judson Burnett
About the author
Carolyn Judson Burnett is remembered as the author of the Blue Grass Seminary Girls series, a set of adventure novels for young readers. Surviving catalog and ebook records confirm titles including The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water, The Blue Grass Seminary Girls in the Mountains, The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures, and The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Christmas Holidays.
Her books were published in the early 1900s and follow a group of schoolgirls through travel, danger, and rescue-filled escapades. The stories mix friendship, determination, and melodrama in the style of classic juvenile series fiction, with settings that range from Kentucky to a summer cruise through the Panama Canal.
Very little biographical information about Burnett herself appears to be readily documented in major public sources, which makes the books the clearest window into her work. Even so, her surviving novels still offer a vivid glimpse of a once-popular kind of girls' adventure story.