Books with author Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth

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.This volume is titled for its first story -- "The Thirteen Little Black Pigs" -- but it contains eight delightful tales from Mrs. Molesworth, not thirteen little black pigs. There's "Right Hand and Left," a tale of sybling rivalry, and things even more unsettling; "A Shilling of Halfpence," the story of an old woman to whom shillings and halfpence are serious money. Children's' fiction from an amazingly talented Victorian writer.

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The familiar appearance of Mrs. Molesworth's gift of delight awakens grateful anticipations which are rarely, if ever, disappointed. The literary work in A Christmas Posy is intrinsically characteristic, and the same must be acknowledged with respect to Mr. Crane's illustrations. Still the stories, a group of six, are variable in conception. Thus their young readers will be pleased to read them, though the modern parental tendency leans towards a quicker brightness than appeals in the opening story.

What did it reveal? For a few minutes we were too dazzled to tell -- really dazzled -- as well as amazed. A perfect flood of light seemed to pour out upon us, and instead of the dingy, musty tool-house we had been expecting, we found ourselves standing at what at first sight appeared like the entrance to some fairy palace of brightness and brilliance. We stood, dazed, rubbing our eyes and looking at each other. Was it magic? Had we chanced upon some such wonder of old world times as our little heads were stuffed with? Tib -- and Gerald too, perhaps -- would have been ready to believe it.

Now he is heading for India -- and the children are to spend several years with their grandmother and aunt, who live in the south of France.There are tears shed at parting with Papa, and a good many more bestowed on the rough coat of Shag, the pony, and the still rougher of Fusser, the Scotch terrier; but the delights of the change and the bustle of the journey soon drown all melancholy thoughts. And meeting their grandmother -- that proves to be the greatest delight them all.Mary Louisa Molesworth (1836-1921), author of The Tapestry Room, tells of long days of adventure and education for the three children learning life in a new country, in Grandmother Dear.

This morning, though, Nurse has fallen ill -- and somehow the children manage to break one of their treasured bowls. Then when strangers appear on the lane, while the adults are away, Duke and Pamela's troubles grow greater than their young minds can embrace!Mary Louisa Molesworth (1836-1921) was the author of such beloved children's novels as The Cuckoo Clock and The Tapestry Room.

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