Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm

Synopsis

Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm is a part of Betty Gordon & Ruth Fielding  children’s novels written as a series by various authors under pseudonym Alice B. Emerson by  Stratemeyer Syndicate.  Some of the books in the series are Betty Gordon in Washington, Betty Gordon at Boarding School, Betty Gordon at Ocean Park, Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill , Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, and Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point.

Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm resembles The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  An orphaned girl Betty Gordon finds shelter in the house of her uncle Dick since she met him.  Dick has to travel for a business trip and as a temporary arrangement Betty is sent to Bramble Farm owned by his school friend Agatha Peabody.  

Against her imagination of fantasies, life at Bramble Farm was not a pleasant one, as the miser Mr. Peabody was treating everyone like a slave including his wife. Betty befriends with Bob  Henderson, a poor boy working in the farm. Unable to bear the tortures of Peabody, Betty wish to run away from the farm, however advised by Dr. Guerin to be patient till her uncle returns.

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