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    A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl"
    A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl"
    A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl"
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    A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl"

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    A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535827522
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      A Study Guide for Joan Aiken's "Lob's Girl" - Gale

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      Lob's Girl

      Joan Aiken

      1981

      Introduction

      The short story Lob's Girl, written by acclaimed British children's author Joan Aiken, first appeared in her collection A Whisper in the Night: Tales of Terror and Suspense, published in 1981. The heartwarming tale of a dog's undying love for and devotion to a young girl, Lob's Girl takes place in a small fishing village in Cornwall, England, the home of the Pengelly family. Aiken uses the relationship between Lob, a German shepherd, and the young Sandy Pengelly over the course of nine years to explore themes of loyalty, identity, maturation, and a love so strong it survives beyond death.

      Aiken is the author of hundreds of children's stories and novels as well as adult literature; she is perhaps best known for the Wolves Chronicles, a series which begins with the novel The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962). In addition to A Whisper in the Night, Lob's Girl can be found in the collection Where the Red Fern Grows (McDougal Littell Literature Connections, 1997).

      Author Biography

      Joan Delano Aiken was born in Rye, Sussex, England, on September 4, 1924. Her father, Conrad Aiken, was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who served as poet laureate of the United States from 1950 to 1952. Her mother, Jessie McDonald Aiken, was born in Canada. Her parents married in 1912 and moved to England in 1921. They had three children: John, born in 1913, Jane, born in 1917, and Joan, the youngest. When Joan was five years old her parents divorced. Later that same year, her mother married English writer Martin Armstrong, and she and Joan moved in with him. Taught at home by her mother, Joan developed a love of books and storytelling and was already writing stories at the age of seven. She regaled her younger brother David Armstrong (born in 1931) with her tales during walks through the countryside.

      When she was twelve, Aiken was sent to a boarding school for girls in Oxford. However, in 1939 the advent of World War II forced the closure of the school. After failing her university entrance exam in 1940, Aiken

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