About the Author. Daisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford, later Devlin (7 April – 15 January ) was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old/5(86). · Ashford, Daisy, Commentator: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), Title: The Author: Ashford, Daisy, Daisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford () was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years www.doorway.ru by: 5.
The Young Visiters is the book that started the schoolchild genre subsequently defined by and All That and Molesworth's various manuals such as Down with Skool and Whizz for Atoms. As with The Young Visiters, the grammar, the language and the authorial viewpoint of those classics contribute much to our enjoyment. Daisy Ashford and The Young Visiters. Born on 3 April in Petersham, Surrey, Daisy Ashford was the oldest of three daughters. Largely educated at home, Daisy loved creating stories to entertain her younger sisters. When she was only four years old, she dictated a story called The Life of Father McSwiney to her father. A short "society novel" written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. The notebook containing the novel was rediscovered by her in adult life and sent by a friend to Frank Swinnerton, the English novelist, critic, editor and essayist. Published in by Chatto and Windus, with its original mis.
The brilliance of “The Young Visiters” was a piece of unrepeatable, inexplicable luck, as any successful novel written by a child has to be. The Young Visiters, which Daisy wrote in her own hand, was her third work of fiction and was followed by three more, written at the ages of 11, 12, and No one thought of publishing them at the time, but her mother salted them away, and in , after her mother’s death, Ashford found them again in a box of mementos. Ashford, Daisy, Commentator: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), Title: The. About the Author. Daisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford, later Devlin (7 April – 15 January ) was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old.
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