Gypsy Breynton is the heroine of an eponymous series of books written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

[1] Gypsy, as the name indicates, is an impetuous tomboy who lives a chaotic life lacking a system.

A few words spoken, just as the conversation ended, became golden mottoes that helped her over many rough places in her life.

"The four books in the series are Gypsy Benton was part of an era introducing tomboyism in American literature.

Around this same period, several other similar characters were created, including those in Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott and What Katy Did (1872) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey.