The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise Or, The Cave in the Mountains
By Margaret Penrose
With a pull, she loosed it from a splinter of the wicker chair and then made for the doorway, followed by the other girls. While they are thus on their way to intercept those who had taken Cora’s car, I will devote a few minutes to acquaint my new readers with the characters and incidents that make up the previous volumes of this series. “The Motor Girls” was the title of the initial book.
In that, we find Cora Kimball, the daughter of a wealthy widow, with her brother Jack, living in “Cheerful Chelton,” as it has been called, a village on the Chelton River in New England, not far from the New York boundary. Cora and Jack each had an automobile, but most of the adventures took place in or about Cora’s car, where she and her two most intimate chums, the Robinson twins—Bess and Belle—went for many a ride. The Robinson girls were the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Robinson, the former a rich railroad man, and I think I have already sufficiently indicated to you their characters.
Bess was plump, and Belle was tall and willowy, inclined to laziness, which she had imagined was graceful. Cora Kimball was a leader, and where she went, the Robinson twins generally followed. Jack Kimball, a student at Exmouth College, was almost as much a chum of Cora’s as were her girlfriends, and the girls regarded Jack and his chums, Walter Pennington and Paul Hastings.
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Margaret Penrose
“Margaret Penrose” is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym used for a few series published by Cupples & Leon.
Biography.
The first series to use this name was the Dorothy Dale series (1908—1924), which became the Syndicate’s first long series with a female protagonist. Based on this success, the name was also used on the Motor Girls series (1910—1917), a counterpart to the successful Motor Boys series (1906—1924). The Radio Girls series (1922—1923) was the last new series to use this name.
When the series was sold to Goldsmith, it became a Campfire Girls series in 1930. One book published under the “Margaret Penrose” name that was not a Stratemeyer Syndicate property was The Burglar’s Daughter (Jordan, Marsh, 1899). The same Syndicate pen name was a coincidence.
Margaret Penrose
