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Nurse Heatherdale's Story

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Title:Nurse Heatherdale's Story
Author:
Molesworth, Mary Louisa  Writing under the pseudonym: Molesworth, Mrs.   
(8 of 11 for author by title)
The Palace in the Garden
The Man with the Pan Pipes
Illustrator:
Brooke, Leonard Leslie   
(2 of 4 for author by title)
Nursery Rhymes I: Songs and Ditties
The Golden Goose
Published:   1891
Publisher:The Macmillan Company
Tags:children, fiction
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British author Mary Louisa Molesworth rose to acclaim as the Jane Austen for Victorian tweens. Like most of her novels, Nurse Heatherdale's Story is packed with romance, adventure and important life lessons for girls on the brink of maturity. Young readers will delight in this whimsical, engaging tale. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Molesworth, Mary Louisa

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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. 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.

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."

Typical of the time, her young child characters often use a lisping style, and words may be misspelt to represent children's speech—"jography" for geography, for instance.

She took an interest in supernatural fiction. In 1888, she published a collection of supernatural tales under the title Four Ghost Stories, and in 1896 a similar collection of six tales under the title Uncanny Tales. In addition to those, her volume Studies and Stories includes a ghost story entitled "Old Gervais" and her Summer Stories for Boys and Girls includes "Not exactly a ghost story."--Wikipedia.

Author Bio for Brooke, Leonard Leslie

Brooke was born on 24 September 1862, in Birkenhead, England. His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Lang's Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors. His acclaimed works include Johnny Crow's Garden (1903), "Ring O' Roses", "The Golden Goose Book", Johnny Crow's Party (1907), Johnny Crow's New Garden (1935), "The Nursery Rhyme Book", and "Oranges and Lemons" published by Frederick Warne & Co.

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