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100 1 _aBarton, May Hollis
245 1 0 _aPlain Jane and pretty Betty
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aThe Barton books for girls ; 5
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-01
508 _aDavid Edwards, Dori Allard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Plain Jane and pretty Betty" by May Hollis Barton is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a small American town, it contrasts the shy, resourceful Jane Cross with privileged Betty Browning while exploring class, kindness, ambition, and the weight of reputation as a girl tries to “win out” through character and effort. The opening of the story follows sixteen-year-old Jane as she leaves the grim mining town of Coal Run with her foster guardians, the Powells, survives a moving-van crash, and finds unexpected hospitality from odd but generous neighbors, Lydia Terrin and “Mad Marion.” Settling into Greenville, Jane’s first errand leads to a stinging slight from the beautiful Betty Browning, but also to a friendly ally in Billy Dobson, a grocer’s clerk and hopeful young inventor. That night a massive fire destroys Martin & Hull’s grain warehouses, injures Mr. Powell’s hands, and threatens the Brownings’ fortune because of a recent loan; by morning, suspicion—fueled by a witness and Mr. Hull’s resentment—unfairly falls on Billy. Jane publicly defends him, then returns home worried about money and quietly resolves to help as the Powells face hardship. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1926
653 _aYoung women -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aCity and town life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aJob hunting -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aWorking class women -- Juvenile fiction
830 0 _aThe Barton books for girls ; 5
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076002339450&view=1up&seq=7
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77832
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