To Remember Forever: the Journal of a College Girl, 1922-1923

by Gladys Hasty Carroll

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306 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Gladys Hasty Carroll (June 26, 1904 – April 1, 1999) was an American novelist active from the late 1920s into the 1980s.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone else on Goodreads wrote in her review of one of the novels written by Gladys Hasty Carroll, I found this in a library throwaway pile! And what a find!

It is a journal of a college girl, certainly; she graduated from Bates College in 1925. I haven't read it in a long time, but remember being quite touched and enlightened by it; there is still a warm glow attached to the memory. I didn't know that the author wrote a number of novels that were popular, in their day, with a (bad) movie being made from her first novel, so I have some digging and reading to do. She only died in 1999, so I could've written her a fan letter during all those years! Well, I'm doing it now.

She writes very well and in a satisfying, confidential tone. She's writing in her journal, but it feels like a series of letters to a friend. A wise voice-- I recommend!

[Bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another from my collection by the wonderful Gladys Hasty Carroll. This is a journal kept by her during her freshman and sophomore years at Bates College, 1921 - 1923. It also includes a lot about her home in South Berwick, Maine and all of the characters who populated her childhood. Not only is Carroll a great writer, but she is flooded with emotion even more than most young people and is able to articulate it beautifully. So much of her experience at Bates is familiar to anyone who has attended college. The friendships, romance, late night studying, striving for grades, going to sporting events, etc. She loves it all. (Someone who has attended Bates might find it interesting to read this book to see if anything feels familiar.) While at school, many things happen back home, some tragic. And she gets caught up in a scarlet fever quarantine. I really enjoyed this book.