Princess Puck

by Una Lucy Silberrad

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Princess Puck

Una L. Silberrad

Doubleday, Page, 1901

456 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Una Lucy Silberrad was a British author and novelist. She was the sister of Oswald Silberrad (1878- 1960), the research chemist.

Reviews

[Shaz]

This is a story mostly about Bill but also about her cousins and how they get on after their aunt dies and there are gossiping villages and kind old men as well as eccentric rich ones and family settlements and inheritances. It does it all very well and Bill herself is quite splendid and this was just good fun.

[Danna]

Described on this article (https://reactormag.com/jo-waltons-rea...) as:
Another wonderful book from Silberrad, and I think this is my favourite of what I’ve read of hers so far. So excited to see more of her work becoming available! This is a Victorian novel and so of course it has a crusty old man, a beautiful house, a village, a vicar, some cousins, ancestral complexities, and inheritances, and it does them all very well. But it also has a heroine called Bill, nobody calls her Wilhelmina (and since my cousin whose name was Wilhelmina went by Wella, I suspect nobody ever called anyone Wilhelmina), whose main characteristics are honesty and a liking for doing physical work well. Bill is terrific, the plot is fun, and I enjoyed every minute of this book. It’s free on Project Gutenberg, and there is more Silberrad coming soon.

Also, this is available on the public domain

[Kate]

I knew I should have written the review immediately after finishing the book. Now I can't remember the main character's name. Anyway, we have four girls, all cousins, all orphans, living with their aunt who runs a girls' school which has seen better days. Then the aunt dies and the girls have to figure out how to survive on what's left. Most of the plot revolves around the youngest, a seventeen-year-old whose name escapes me. She's a bit quirky, definitely young and naive, and frequently described by different characters as elfin.

I did enjoy the story and will be looking for more by this author.

[Beth]

Imliked the middle more than the end, which was a bit unsatisfying. I liked the careful and nonjudgmental way of assessing each character, and Bill’s implausible but utterly convincing depiction.