molesworth mary louisa lewis baumer (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 272p pictoral pink cloth with gilt, blue and yellow illustration, extensive publisher's catalogue at rear, presentation label, shelfwear to boards, otherwise clean and unmarked, very good Language: English.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Na. BAUMER Lewis Ilustrador. Unspecified. Undated c1898. Description: Blue illustrated cloth with black and gilt titles to front and spine. Grey endpapers. Colour fontis, tissue guard and 16 other colour illustrations and head & tailpieces by Lewis Baumer. Language: English. Book Condition> Good: Wear to corners and edges with heavier wear to sunned spine ends and edges. Light roll to spine. Intact endpapers with strong hinges. Owner plate to fly page with prev owners name. Lightly tanned pages with occasional minor mark. DJ Condition> Na. Pages [ix], 248, [32p catalogue]. Size: 12mo (large), 19.5cm by 13.5cm. Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth, n e Stewart was an English writer of childrens stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham Her name occasionally appears in print as MLS Molesworth She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (1809-1873) who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson (1810-1883) Mary had three brothers and two sisters She was educated in Great Britain and Switzerland: much of her girlhood was spent in Manchester In 1861 she married Major R Molesworth, nephew of Viscount Molesworth; they legally separated in 1879 Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880) She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery," while The Carved Lions (1895) "is probably her masterpiece" 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 Bronts, 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 Typical of the time, her young child characters often use a lisping style, and words may be misspelt to represent childrens speechÑ"jography" for geography, for instance She took an interest in supernatural fiction In 1888, she published a collection of supernatural tales under the title Four Ghost Stories, and in 1896 a similar collection of six tales under the title Uncanny Stories In addition to those, her volume Studies and Stories includes a ghost story entitled "Old Gervais" and her Summer Stories for Boys and Girls includes "Not exactly a ghost story". PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.