Tripping With the Tucker Twins

Tripping With the Tucker Twins is one of the books in Nell Speed’s long running Tucker Twins series, following the twin sisters Tweedles and Dum Tucker on a particular travel adventure. The tripping of the title points to the travel focus of this entry, with the twins venturing beyond their usual school and home settings into the kind of travel that nineteenth century girls’ series fiction often used to expand the geographical and cultural range of the connected stories.

Nell Speed was the pen name of Emma Speed Sampson, an American author who wrote a number of long running series for young readers. Her Tucker Twins series ran for ten books between 1915 and 1925, with the various entries covering home, boarding school, college, and travel settings across the connected sequence.

For scholars of children’s literature or of girls’ series fiction, Speed’s work is essential. Many of her books are now in the public domain.