Other books for children by MAB
are Ribbon Stories, 1872 (designed for younger children and containing fantasy elements),
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Holiday Stories for Boys and Girls, 1873 (in a lavishly illustrated and gilded volume...
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Mary Louisa Molesworth
As a not-very-successful writer of adult fiction, MLM
was advised by a friend, Sir Noel Paton
, to try writing for children. She later ascribed her first venture that way entirely to his suggestion: He...
