Mrs. Molesworth (1839–1921)
Autor/a de The Cuckoo Clock
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Mrs. Molesworth
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs Molesworth-Including Two Novelettes, 'Unexplained' and… (2011) 6 exemplars
The Wood-Pigeons and Mary. 4 exemplars
The Little Old Portrait 3 exemplars
Little Mother Bunch 3 exemplars
The Little Guest: a story for children 3 exemplars
That Girl in Black; and, Bronzie 2 exemplars
Fairy Stories 2 exemplars
How A Dear Little Couple Went Abroad 2 exemplars
Shaggycoat: The Biography of a Beaver 2 exemplars
The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border 2 exemplars
Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy 2 exemplars
The Story Of The Rippling Train 2 exemplars
The Constant Prince 2 exemplars
The bewitched lamp 2 exemplars
Sheila's mystery 2 exemplars
The Laurel Walk 2 exemplars
The Man With The Cough 1 exemplars
The Ruby Ring, etc 1 exemplars
Miss Bouverie 1 exemplars
Nesta, or Fragments of a Little Life 1 exemplars
Collected stories 1 exemplars
Carrots, Just a Little Boy/A Christmas Child 1 exemplars
The Story of the King's Daughter [short story] 1 exemplars
The Shadow in the Moonlight and Other Stories (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) (2016) 1 exemplars
THE FEBRUARY BOYS 1 exemplars
The girls and I, and, That girl in black 1 exemplars
The Children's Hour 1 exemplars
Neighbours 1 exemplars
The Smugglers' Cave, and other stories. By Mrs. Molesworth ... and others. [Illustrated.] 1 exemplars
A charge fulfilled 1 exemplars
The Red grange 1 exemplars
The story of a year 1 exemplars
The third Miss St. Quentin 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Col·laborador — 173 exemplars
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (1992) — Col·laborador — 128 exemplars
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex (1900) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century English Moral Fairy Tales (2010) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
An Obscurity of Ghosts: Further Tales of the Supernatural by Women 1876 – 1903 (2019) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Stories Jolly, Stories New, Stories Strange, and Stories True: A Series of New and Original Tales for Boys and Girls… — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Eighteen Stories For Girls 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Graham, Ennis (pseudonym)
Stewart, Mary Louisa (birth name)
Molesworth, Mrs.
Molesworth, M. L. S. - Data de naixement
- 1839-05-29
- Data de defunció
- 1921-01-20
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Brompton Cemetery, London, UK
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Manchester, England, UK
- Professions
- children's book author
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 102
- També de
- 22
- Membres
- 652
- Popularitat
- #38,721
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 23
- ISBN
- 146
- Llengües
- 3
As a novel for older children Mrs Molesworth was quite clear of the moral of her story: ‘cruel as were the leaders of this revolt, frightful as were the deeds they committed, it is impossible, and it would altogether be unjust, to blame them and their followers alone … and certainly the misdeeds which were at the bottom of this most terrible of quarrels, were far more on the side of the upper classes than of the lower.’
From the bucolic estate of Edmeé’s childhood, Valmont-les- Roses in Touraine, the narrative takes the reader to the triumph and fear of revolutionary Paris. There is an eery appearance of a mob singing and dancing to La Carmagnole as well as reflections on the condemned approaching their ‘ghastly journey to death’. ‘Some of them appeared ‘strong in despair, some fainting and unconscious as if already dead, a few, but very few, shrieking wildly for mercy to their brutal keepers - others, many even, with looks of sweet resignation and noble courage, to whom the guillotine was indeed but the gate of Heaven.’
Can Edmeé and her mother escape the guillotine? As a character comments to good Pierre Germaine, Edmeé’s peasant foster-brother, ‘Madame Guillotine will tell you; she’s the only Madame now!’
This novel was later reissued with a different title Edmeé: a tale of the French revolution.… (més)