The children in the story, whose characters have been spoiled by upbringing in the West Indies, are at first unwilling to visit the bookshop, but they find it a delightful, pretty, and fashionable...
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Early in her career SSW
also published instructional books for children (though the generic boundary between these and story-books is by no means clear; Lissa Paul
calls these teaching narratives realistic fiction).
Paul, in...
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW
's A Visit to London serves to exemplify the difficulty of dating her work (apart from her full-length novels). (It has also been ascribed to Elizabeth Kilner
, but the chain of allusive authorship...
