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Maude (Maudie) Mason was the protagonist, and narrator, of the “Maudie stories” and “Maudie books” written by Graeme and Sarah Lorimer in the 1930s and ’40s, and of the radio show “Maudie’s Diary”, which aired in 1941-42. The stories, which featured romantic schemes, contemporary slang, and witty banter, revolved around the adventures, tribulations, loves, and losses of a teenage girl. ==Biographical== Maudie’s full name is Maude Worthington Benevolence Mason, but she keeps that a secret because “even I could never live it down.”〔Graeme and Sarah Lorimer, ''Heart Specialist'', Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1935.〕 She lives in〔Graeme and Sarah Lorimer, ''Stag Line'', Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1934.〕 or near Philadelphia〔〔 with her parents and—for a while—her older sister, Sylvia.〔〔Jack French, “Mary Mason, Star of Maudie’s Diary”, ''Radio Recall'', Metropolitan Washington Old Time Radio Club, October 2008; accessed 2015.09.11.〕 In ''Men are Like Street Cars'', she is sixteen.〔Graeme and Sarah Lorimer, ''Men Are Like Street Cars'', Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1934.〕 In ''Stag Line'', she is seventeen.〔 She is eighteen in ''Heart Specialist'',〔 “practically a grown-up”,〔 and remembers being “a naïve child of sixteen.”〔 She is 18〔Graeme and Sarah Lorimer, ''First Love Farewell'', Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1940.〕 or 19〔and anticipates her next birthday (in May) in ''First Love, Farewell''.〔 Many young adults come into Maudie’s life, but the most constant presence is her friend, David〔 (Davy) Dillon,〔 with whom there are recurring romantic possibilities;〔''E.g.'', Men Are Like Street Cars, pp. 187, 217; Stag Line, pp. 44-45, Heart Specialist, pp. 89, 240 (since she was 12), 243 (loved him my whole life), 275 (“faithful to Davy since I was twelve except for occasional exceptions”)〕〔 she strings him along, but seems to settle on him more seriously late in the series.〔 She has a comfortable upper-middle class life,〔 and spends much of her time in romantic schemes and manipulations,〔''E.g.'', Heart Specialist, p. 29.〕 sometimes joined by such friends as Pauline.〔 She says Davy has suspected her motives since she was 11.〔 Numerous facts about Maudie and her family are disclosed in the course of the series, some of them showing the inconsistency of a serial work. Maudie is blonde,〔〔 and proud of it;〔 she weighs .〔 Maudie’s friends include Alix (her best female friend),〔 Julie Purviance,〔 who “has just about as much brains as beauty” (not much),〔 Pauline (Pauly) Howard,〔 and Mary Brandt and her brother Bill.〔 Maudie’s father is called variously Dick〔 and Franklin.〔 He is on the board (possibly the chair〔) of Memorial Hospital.〔 Her mother’s name is not revealed. Maudie’s sister Sylvia marries Jerry,〔 who is pointedly not a native Philadelphian.〔 Davy has an older sister, Ting.〔 His car is nicknamed the Fallen Arch,〔〔 and he manages his school boxing team.〔 He later goes to “the university” (presumably Penn),〔 where he manages the tennis team〔 and is probably a year or two older than Maudie.〔He is a sophomore (Heart Specialist p. 38) when she is 18 (Heart Specialist p. 121).〕 Maudie has a cousin Joy from Baltimore, who visits and causes problems.〔 Her other relatives include an Aunt Esther and Uncle Arthur in Philadelphia,〔 and Aunts Rachel〔 and Benevolence.〔 Her godfather, “Uncle Ned” Chace,〔 lives in Chicago after doing “something awful”,〔 but redeems himself and reappears later.〔 Maudie worries about “unfair discrimination against women”〔 and observes that “it’s all right to have a mind if you use it to tell a man how wonderful he is.”〔 Nevertheless, she opines that “A girl owes it to herself to occasionally get a man into a jam, but she owes it to him to always get him out.”〔 She has a parody version of “The Star Spangled Banner”,〔 and is a Republican.〔 She is not much for books, “as personally I prefer to live life than to read about it.”〔 She is quick with snappy banter,〔 read Little Black Sambo as a child,〔 and has an appendectomy.〔 She has a coming-out garden party〔 in June;〔 she is the first girl in “our crowd” to have one.〔 She had a crush on “Baldy” Baldridge, a steeplechase rider, “for years”.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maudie Mason」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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