Mrs. Molesworth (1839–1921)
Autor de The Cuckoo Clock
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Obras de Mrs. Molesworth
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs Molesworth-Including Two Novelettes, 'Unexplained' and… (2011) 6 copias
The Wood-Pigeons and Mary. 4 copias
Fairy Stories 2 copias
That Girl in Black; and, Bronzie 2 copias
The Constant Prince 2 copias
How A Dear Little Couple Went Abroad 2 copias
The Story Of The Rippling Train 2 copias
The bewitched lamp 2 copias
The Laurel Walk 2 copias
The Shadow in the Moonlight and Other Stories (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) (2016) 1 copia
Collected stories 1 copia
The Ruby Ring, etc 1 copia
Silverthorns 1 copia
The Man with the Cough 1 copia
The Red grange 1 copia
Neighbours 1 copia
The Children's Hour 1 copia
THE FEBRUARY BOYS 1 copia
The third Miss St. Quentin 1 copia
A charge fulfilled 1 copia
Olivia ... 1 copia
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Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Contribuidor — 174 copias, 2 reseñas
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers (1992) — Contribuidor — 129 copias
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies (1967) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex (1977) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century English Moral Fairy Tales (2010) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
An Obscurity of Ghosts: Further Tales of the Supernatural by Women 1876 – 1903 (2019) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Stories Jolly, Stories New, Stories Strange, and Stories True: A Series of New and Original Tales for Boys and Girls… — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Eighteen Stories For Girls 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Graham, Ennis (pseudonym)
Stewart, Mary Louisa (birth name)
Molesworth, Mrs.
Molesworth, M. L. S. - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1839-05-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1921-01-20
- Lugar de sepultura
- Brompton Cemetery, London, UK
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Manchester, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- children's book author
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 105
- También por
- 22
- Miembros
- 657
- Popularidad
- #38,400
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 23
- ISBNs
- 148
- Idiomas
- 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.… (más)