| Grandmother Dear by Mrs. Molesworth, Fiction, Historical Contributor(s): Mrs Molesworth (Author), Molesworth, Mary Louisa S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606647261 ISBN-13: 9781606647264 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: They have never met their grandmother, even though Ralph is fourteen now, Sylvia thirteen, and Molly about a year and a half younger. More than seven years ago their mother died, and since then they have been living with their father, whose profession obliges him often to change his home. Now he is heading for India -- and the children are to spend several years with their grandmother and aunt, who live in the south of France. There are tears shed at parting with Papa, and a good many more bestowed on the rough coat of Shag, the pony, and the still rougher of Fusser, the Scotch terrier; but the delights of the change and the bustle of the journey soon drown all melancholy thoughts. And meeting their grandmother -- that proves to be the greatest delight them all. Mary Louisa Molesworth (1836-1921), author of "The Tapestry Room," tells of long days of adventure and education for the three children learning life in a new country, in "Grandmother Dear." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 128 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Mrs Molesworth: - "Mary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart (1839 - 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham. Her name occasionally appears in print as M. L. S. Molesworth. She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (1809-1873) who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson (1810-1883). Mary had three brothers and two sisters. She was educated in Great Britain and Switzerland: much of her girlhood was spent in Manchester. In 1861 she married Major R. Molesworth, nephew of Viscount Molesworth; they legally separated in 1879. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879) and A Christmas Child (1880). She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery," while The Carved Lions (1895) "is probably her masterpiece." In the judgement of Roger Lancelyn Green: "Mary Louisa Molesworth typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Brontës, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction. The girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice."" |