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    The Young Visiters

    2003 · Comedy drama · 1h 30m

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  1. The Young Visiters or Mister Salteena's Plan is a 1919 novel by English writer Daisy Ashford (1881–1972). She wrote it when she was nine years old and part of its appeal lies in its juvenile innocence, and its unconventional grammar and spelling. It was reprinted 18 times in its first year alone.

    • Daisy Ashford, James Matthew Barrie
    • United Kingdom
    • 1919
    • English
  2. Dec 26, 2003 · With Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Lyndsey Marshal, Bill Nighy. Nine-year-old Daisy wrote a novel in 1890 about an awkward gentleman meeting a young lady on a train. He invites her to his London home. She wants to meet high society, so he takes her to a lord's country estate.

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    • Comedy, Drama, Family
    • David Yates
    • 2003-12-26
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  4. The Young Visiters. Daisy Ashford. 3.77. 1,021 ratings222 reviews. A short “society novel” written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. The notebook containing the novel was rediscovered by her in adult life and sent by a friend to Frank Swinnerton, the English novelist, critic, editor and essayist.

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  5. May 11, 2007 · re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. Title: The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan. Author: Daisy Ashford. Release Date: May 11, 2007 [EBook #21415] Language: English. Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1.

  6. Aug 30, 2005 · The Young Visiters. Hardcover – August 30, 2005. This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing.

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    • 1919
    • Daisy Ashford, James Matthew Barrie
    • Daisy Ashford
  7. Margaret Mary Julia Devlin (née Ashford; 3 April 1881 – 15 January 1972), 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.

  8. Sep 30, 2011 · A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window, it was written in 1890 by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. It all starts when Alfred Salteena, who is 'not...

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