 Page's 1927 school story "Schoolgirl Rivals" is obviously Mallory's inspirational source for "Juliet Overseas".In the early chapters the similarities between the two books are particularly apparent with sentences being transposed with slight or no alteration; "she was a stranger in a strange land" becomes "She was a new girl in a strange land"; "a crowd of passengers from another train swarmed across the platform" becomes "a little crowd of passengers from another train hurried across the platform".As the stories progress however Mallory strikes off firmly on her own taking her story to a level of excellence in characterisation and plotting that far surpasses the earlier book.