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4. 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. [1] The novella was published in 1919, preserving her ...
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Daisy was born Margaret Mary Julia Ashford, in 1881, at Petersham, London. She was the eldest of three daughters of William Ashford, her father, a former War Office official, and the sixth child of his wife Emma. Both parents were Catholics and all the children largely educated at home. When Daisy was just four, already the avid reader Barrie ...
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Ashford, Daisy (1881–1972)British children's author. Born Margaret Mary Julia Ashford on April 7, 1881, in Petersham, Surrey, England;died in Hellesdon, Norwich, England, on January 15, 1972; daughter of William Henry Roxburghe and Emma Georgina (Walker) Ashford; married James Devlin, in 1920.Author of Where Love Lies Deepest (1893); The Hangman's Daughter (1894); The Young Visiters (1919).
Sep 10, 2020 · It was written in 1890, when its author, Daisy Ashford, was nine. There are two obvious ways for a child’s novel to be funny. First: naively, by reminding the adult reader of what a child does not know. Every 42-year-old knows he isn’t elderly —while remaining aware, uncomfortably, that to the nine-year-old still inside him, he ...
Nov 16, 2013 · Margaret Mary Julia ‘Daisy’ Ashford was born on 7 April 1881 in Petersham, Surrey. At the age of nine, she wrote her first novel, The Young Visiters (or Mr Salteenas Plan), a comic story involving both class and romance in nineteenth-century England. Though Daisy wrote the novella in 1890, it was not published until 1919, at which time it ...
Dec 10, 2019 · Daisy Ashford and The Young Visiters. Dec 10, 2019. Photo Credit: Wikipedia. Born on 3 April 1881 in Petersham, Surrey, Daisy Ashford was the oldest of three daughters. Largely educated at home, Daisy loved creating stories to entertain her younger sisters. When she was only four years old, she dictated a story called The Life of Father ...
The Young Visiters. 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.
