She wrote it during the war, sending each chapter, as it was finished, to Victor Haslam
at the front. This original edition had illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock
, who had also supplied the music...
Publishing
Evelyn Sharp
ES
published another school story, The Youngest Girl in the School, with illustrations by C. E. Brock
; it began her habit of publishing her children's books through Macmillan
.
Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3-23.
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Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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Reception
Mary Augusta Ward
Only 250 copies were printed (production continued until 1912), with the first volume signed by the author. The edition boasted illustrations in the form of landscape photographs, with notes by the author often connecting them...
Textual Features
E. Nesbit
In a family living without its father (who is in fact in prison, accused of selling state secrets to Russia), Bobby, the eldest girl, is forced to act as second parent to the other children...
Textual Production
Susan Tweedsmuir
ST
published children's books both before and after she ceased to use her original married name of Susan Buchan. Jim and the Dragon, 1929 (illustrated by George Morrow
), is not included in lists...
Timeline
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Texts
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Charles Edmund Brock. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard. W. Collins Sons, 1921.
Nesbit, E., and Charles Edmund Brock. The Railway Children. Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1906.
Sharp, Evelyn, and Charles Edmund Brock. The Youngest Girl in the School. Macmillan, 1901.