![]() ![]() The names that appeared in the very beginning, Disgraceful Mary Jane, Smooth Kitty, they just came to me. Julie Berry: You know, that’s a great question and the answer’s a funny one. Rileigh Hughes: When you were coming up with the names for the characters, what inspired you to choose those names? We start with eleven year old Rileigh Hughes, who wanted to know about all those nicknames. We visited them to discuss the book, and recorded their questions for the author, Julie Berry. ![]() Summer readers at the public library in Morristown read The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. ![]() The first thing readers notice about the finishing school students is that they each have a moniker they can’t seem to shake: Dear Roberta Pratley, Disgraceful Mary Jane Marshall, Dull Martha Boyle, Stout Alice Brooks, Smooth Kitty Heaton, Pocked Louise Dudley and Dour Elinor Siever. Thus is born The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. So when their headmistress and her brother drop dead at Sunday dinner, the young ladies decide to bury the bodies in the back garden and keep the murders a secret. But despite their dreary situation at school, there is one fate that all the girls agree would be far worse. The girls' lives are mundane under the care of their miserly headmistress. Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies are there to learn to behave as proper maidens should. ![]()
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