![]() Sue meets Katherine Van Dyke and Constance Halliday early in the first book and they become close friends. I could be wrong about that and I’d be happy to be corrected. There’s never any suggestion that she might become a doctor herself and I can’t remember there being any female doctors mentioned throughout the series. Her father is a doctor and she’s inspired by this to take up nursing. We don’t know lots about her: she’s eighteen and has a younger brother, Ted. We first meet Sue as she is leaving her New Hampshire home to travel to Boston where she will train to become a nurse. Or I might just have thought they were strange because they were American! For whatever reason, though, I just read and enjoyed them. They might have caused me to consider the time setting of the books. I had at that time never seen the editions above with the original dustwrappers painted by Major Felton. ![]() Early American editions of the first two books ![]()
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