Daisy Ashford - Ashford, Daisy; Ashford, Angela; Cobb, Irvin S.
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A collection of the remaining stories dictated to her father by Ashford as a child, including Daisy's "most imposing novel", The Hangman's Daughter, together with The Jealous Governes by her eight-year-old sister Angela Ashford, and a preface by Irvin S. Cobb. Daisy Ashford was something of a juvenile prodigy. She dictated and wrote lengthy, detailed stories (using somewhat creative spelling) from the time she was four, and finished her last opus when she was fourteen. The Young Visiters, her first novel was described as a "classic story of life and love in Victorian England as seen through…mehr

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A collection of the remaining stories dictated to her father by Ashford as a child, including Daisy's "most imposing novel", The Hangman's Daughter, together with The Jealous Governes by her eight-year-old sister Angela Ashford, and a preface by Irvin S. Cobb. Daisy Ashford was something of a juvenile prodigy. She dictated and wrote lengthy, detailed stories (using somewhat creative spelling) from the time she was four, and finished her last opus when she was fourteen. The Young Visiters, her first novel was described as a "classic story of life and love in Victorian England as seen through the nursery window" was completed in 1890, when Ashford was about nine. It lay forgotten until 1917, when it was rediscovered and was published in 1919, compete with a preface by J. M. Barrie (the author of Peter Pan) and became an instant best seller.
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Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) was an English writer best known for her satirical novel of high society, The Young Visiters, which she wrote at the age of nine. Born to a Catholic family in Surrey, Ashford was largely educated at home. From the age of four until her early teens, she composed novels, plays, and short fiction for the private amusement of those around her. Following the death of her mother, Ashford rediscovered the manuscript of The Young Visiters in the family papers. With the encouragement of influential editor Frank Swinnerton, the novel was published in 1919 by Chatto & Windus, becoming an immediate bestseller. In 1920, Daisy Ashford: Her Book, a follow-up collection of her fiction, appeared. Averse to her accidental literary celebrity, Ashford did not publish any further work during her lifetime. She married James Devlin in 1920, with whom she had three children, and resided in Norwich until her death.