A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century
Daisy Ashford (Author) Daisy (Margaret Mary Julia) Ashford was born in Petersham, Surrey in 1881, the eldest of the three daughters of William Ashford and the sixth child of his wife Emma. She dictated her first story, 'The Life of Father McSwiney', when she was four and finished her last 'The Hangman's Daughter' when she was fourteen. The Young Visiters was written in 1890 soon after the family moved to Lewes, Sussex. Daisy was thirty-six when The Young Visiters was rediscovered and it was published two years later in 1919. In the following January she married James Devlin and spent the rest of her life in Norfolk. They had four children. Although all five of her other stories that survived from her childhood were published, she never took up writing again. She died in January 1972. Posy Simmonds (Illustrator) Posy Simmonds is the author of many books for adults and children, including Gemma Bovery, Lulu and the Flying Babies and Fred, the film of which was nominated for an Oscar. She has won international awards for her work, including the 2009 Grand prix de la critique bande dessinee for Tamara Drewe. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe have been made into successful feature films. She lives in London.
I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and
exuberant spellings... A blissful book -- Nina Stibbe
Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads -- Ruth
Ware
If you haven't read The Young Visiters before you're in
for a treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest
of days -- Tracy Chevalier
A total one off, a magic book that has been in the shelves almost
all my life and which I go back to with a thrill every decade to so
to remind myself why I love it so much -- Juliet Nicolson
Wonderful... A forgotten gem of a book but so influential in so
many ways -- Joanne Harris
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