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The young visiters, or, Mr. Salteena's plan

  • 89 pages · about 1 hour
  • First published 1919
  • 56 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

> The Young Visiters has long been established as comic masterpiece; many of its entrancing phrases have passed into common usage. It has been dramatised for the stage and television and made into a musical. This classic story of life and love in late Victorian England as seen from the nursery window has been in print ever since it was first published in 1919, nearly thirty years after it was written by the nine year-old Daisy.

>Now an entirely new edition of The Young Visiters has been produced. It has been illustrated with drawings by Posy Simmonds which are as enchanting and witty as the story. The text has been transcribed afresh from the original and J. M. Barrie's famous preface, written with all the authority of the author of Peter Pan, has been retained.

Good for readers who want: humor, a love story, and a short read.

  • English wit and humor
  • Humor
  • Romance
  • Social life and customs
  • Girls

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3 About Daisy Ashford

1881–1972

Margaret Mary Julia Devlin (née Ashford; 3 April 1881 – 15 January 1972), known as Daisy 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 nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters".

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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