Mrs. Molesworth: The man with the pan-pipes and other stories.

Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, London & E & J. B. Young, New York, vor 1900, 96 Seiten mit zahlreichen Bildern. Gebunden Leinen.

mit einigen Chromolithographien ob es sich mit Sicherheit um die Erstausgabe handelt, kann ich nicht mit Bestimmtheit sagen, die Widmung belegt zumindest das Erscheinen im Jahre 1900 oder früher - THE MAN WITH THE PANPIPES - "PIG-BETTY'' - THE DORMOUSE'S MISTAKE - THE CHRISTMAS GUEST - OLIVE'S TEA-PARTY - A LIVE DUMMY - A QUEER HIDING-PLACE - BLUE FROCKS AND PINK FROCKS "Mary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart (29 May 1839 – 20 January 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth.[1] 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 M. L. S. 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 ..." (Wikipedia).