| The Tapestry Room by Mrs. Molesworth, Fiction, Historical Contributor(s): Mrs Molesworth (Author), Molesworth, Mary Louisa S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606649906 ISBN-13: 9781606649909 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: It is quite a journey from Jeanne's bedroom down the long corridor, to the place fascinating to her since her babyhood: the room hung with tapestry -- very old, and in some parts faded, but still distinct. Jeanne sees something strange in one tapestry, of a garden. Didn't those peacocks move, ever so slightly? Then Dudu, the family's raven, is at the window -- but she just saw that decrepit old bird down on the terrace. Dudu cannot fly that fast! Now she hears wonderful news -- her cousin Hugh is coming to stay. He will be like a little brother -- and he will sleep in the tapestry room . . . No longer alone as a child in the great rambling old house, Jeanne has a friend with whom to pass the idle hours . . . and to explore her own home -- which proves far more magical than she knew! |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 116 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."" |