SVH: Pure Teen Girl Escapism Through the Decades

It was probably closer to book 100--you can see the difference in the covers and sudden appearance of all these 3-book miniseries. I mean the series tended to sensationalism already--you could see it in the later books starting in the 60s, like when the Wakefields almost got divorced. But wow, it just went downhill.

The last series was called simply "Elizabeth." Unfortunately I can't name you the six books in the series, since my copies are all in storage. I found it a little silly to think that Elizabeth somehow failed to mail in her acceptance to Oxford and ended up playing the servant in the home of a titled British family (she and Jessica had a major SVU falling out). There was a lot of class stuff in it, like, "Oh you can't be with the scullery maid Elizabeth because you're a duke" or some nonsense of the sort. I found that a bit off-putting too--why would Elizabeth, an American who doesn't care about such distinctions, find herself cowed by something like that?