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Daisy Ashford: Her Book

By Daisy Ashford

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

In a collection of stories from a young author's early life, characters navigate humorous love stories and social expectations with innocent charm.

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2008-05-31
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Summary

"Daisy Ashford: Her Book" by Daisy Ashford and Angela Ashford is a compilation of captivating novels from her early years, revealing the playful creativity of a young mind in the early 1900s. From these tales emerge various characters in amusing situations and offer glimpses into the author's evolution. Daisy Ashford starts the book expressing appreciation for readers and acknowledging past triumphs, setting the stage for Irvin S. Cobb's introduction, which praises the stories' authentic energy. In "A Short Story of Love and Marriage," readers meet Mr. and Mrs. Molvern alongside Burke and Edith, where their adventures lead to light-hearted scenarios. These stories combine youthful humor with observations about romance and societal norms, crafting a charming and sentimental experience for readers.

About the Author

Margaret Mary Julia Devlin, 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 just 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".

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