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Mrs Mary Louise Stewart Molesworth

Female : Children's novelist. Calvinist. Married Major Richard Molesworth in 1861, later divorced. She went to live in France. Published 100 books
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Rotterdam, Holland

Date of Birth : 1839 Date of Death : 1921 Age : 83

Pseudonyms : Ennis Graham
Published by Macmillan unless stated
1870-1880
Lover and Husband
(1870)
She Was Young and He Was Old
(1872)
Cicely
(1874)
Tell Me a Story
(1875) - As Ennis Graham. Walter Crane
Carrots : Just a Little Boy
(1876) as Ennis Graham - Walter Crane
The Cuckoo Clock
(1877) as Ennis Graham - Walter Crane
Grandmother Dear : A Book for Boys & Girls
(1878) - Walter Crane
The Tapestry Room : A Child's Romance
(1879) - Walter Crane
Miss Bouverie
(1880)
A Christmas Child : A Sketch of a Boy-Life
(1880) - Walter Crane

1881-1885
Hermy : The Story of a Little Girl
(1881 Routledge) - Mary Ellen Edwards
The Adventures of Herr Baby
(1881) - Walter Crane
Hoodie
(1882 Routledge) - Mary Ellen Edwards
Summer Stories for Boys and Girls
(1882) - Mary Ellen Edwards
Rosy
(1882) - Walter Crane
The Boys and I
(1883 Routledge) - Mary Ellen Edwards
Two Little Waifs
(1883) - Walter Crane
Christmas Tree Land
(1884) - Walter Crane
The Little Old Portrait
(1884 SPCK) - W Gunston
Lettice
(1884 SPCK) - Frank Dadd
Us : An Old Fashioned Story
(1885) - Walter Crane

1886-1889
A Charge Fulfilled
(1886 SPCK) - R Caton
Silverthorns
(1887 Hatchards) - J Noel Paton
Four Winds Farm
(1887) - Walter Crane
Little Miss Peggy
(1887) - Walter Crane
The Palace in the Garden
(1887 Hatchards) - Harriet M Bennett]
Marrying and Giving in Marriage
(1887)
The Abbey by the Sea and Felix, An Outcast
(1887 SPCK) - Frank Dadd
The Third Miss St Quentin
(1888 Hatchards)
Four Ghost Stories
(1888)
Five Minute Stories
(1888 SPCK) - Gordon Browne et al
A Christmas Posy
(1888) - Walter Crane
The Rectory Children
(1889) - Walter Crane
A House to Let
(1889 SPCK) - W J Morgan
Great Uncle Hoot-Toot
(1889 SPCK) - Gordon Browne et al
The Old Pincushion, or Aunt Clotilda's Guests
(1889 Griffith & Farran) - Mrs A Hope
Neighbours
(1889 Hatchards) - Mary Ellen Edwards
Nesta, or Fragments of a Little Life
(1889 Chambers)

1890-1891
The Green Casket & other Stories
(1890 Chambers) - R Barnes & W J Morgan
Twelve Tiny Tales
(1890 SPCK) - W J Morgan
Family Troubles
(Mr Nobody) (1890 SPCK, London & Young, NY) - W J Morgan
The Children of the Castle
(1890) - W Crane
Little Mother Bunch
(1890 Cassell) - Mary Ellen Edwards
The Story of a Spring Morning & Other Tales
(1890 Longman) - Mary Ellen Edwards
The Red Grange
(1891 Methuen) - Gordon Browne
The Bewitched Lamp
(1891 Chambers) - Robert Barnes
The Lucky Ducks & other Stories
(1891 SPCK) - W J Morgan
Sweet Content
(1891 Griffiths & Farran) - William Rainey
Nurse Heatherdale's Story
(1891) - L Leslie Brooke

1892-1895
The Girls and I : A Veracious History
(1892) - L Leslie Brooke
Imogen, or Only Eighteen
(1892 Chambers) - Herbert A Bone
An Enchanted Garden - Fairy Stories
(1892 T Fisher Unwin) - W J Hennessy
Farthings : the Story of a Stray and a Waif
(1892 Wells Gardner) - G M Bradley
The Man with the Pan-Pipes & Other Stories
(1892 SPCK) - W J Morgan
Robin Redbreast : A Story for Girls
(1892 Chambers) (1894 Whittaker, NY) - Robert Barnes
The Next-Door House
(1893 Chambers) - W Hatherell
Studies and Stories
(1893 A D Innes) - W Crane
The Thirteen Little Black Pigs & Other Stories
(1893 SPCK) - W J Morgan
Mary : A Nursery Story for Very Little Children
(1893) - L Leslie Brooke
Olivia : A Story for Girls
(1893 Chambers) (1895 Lippincott) - Robert Barnes
Blanche : A Story for Girls
(1894 Chambers) - Robert Barnes
My New Home
(1894) - L Leslie Brooke
The Carved Lions
(1895) - L Leslie Brooke
Sheila's Mystery
(1895) - L Leslie Brooke
Opposite Neighbours & Other Stories
(1895 SPCK) - W J Morgan

1896-1900
White Turrets
(1896 Chambers) - William Rainey
Friendly Joey & Other Stories
(1896 SPCK) - W J Morgan
The Oriel Window
(1896) - L Leslie Brooke
Uncanny Tales
(1896 Hutchinson)
Miss Mouse and Her Boys
(1897) - L Leslie Brooke
Philippa
(1897 Chambers) - J Finnemore
Meg Langholme, or The Day After Tomorrow
(1897 Chambers) - William Rainey
Stories for Children in Illustration of the Lord's Prayer
(1897 Gardner & Darton)
- Gordon Browne et al
Greyling Towers : A Story for the Young
(1898 Chambers) - Percy Tarrant
The Magic Nuts
(1898) - Rosie M Pitman
The Laurel Walk
(1898)
The Grim House
(1899 Nisbet) - Warwick Goble
This and That : A Tale of Two Tinies
(1899) - Hugh Thomson
The Children's Hour
(1899 Nelson)
The Three Witches
(1900 Chambers) - Lewis Baumer
The House that Grew
(1900) - Alice B Woodward

1901 Onwards
The Wood Pigeons and Mary
(1901) - H R Millar
My Pretty and Her Little Brother Too & Other stories
(1901 Chambers) - Lewis Baumer
The Blue Baby & Other stories
(1901 Unwin) - Maud C Foster
Peterkin
(1902) - H R Millar
The Mystery of the Pinewood and Hollow Tree House
(1903 Nister) - A A Dixon
The Ruby Ring
(1904) - Rosie Pitman
The Bolted Door & Other Stories
(1906 Chambers) - Lewis Baumer
The Wrong Envelope and Other stories
(1906)
Jasper : A Story for Children
(1906) - Gertrude D Holland
The Little Guest : A Story for Children
(1907 Macmillan) - Gertrude D Holland
Fairies - of Sorts
(1908) - Gertrude D Holland
The February Boys
(1909 Chambers) - Mabel Lucie Attwell
The Story of a Year
(1910) - Gertrude D Holland
The Old Pincushion
(1910 Chambers) - Mabel Lucie Attwell
Fairies Afield
(1911) - Gertrude D Holland
The Cuckoo Clock
(1914 Lippincott) - Maria L Kirk
Edmee : A Tale of the French Revolution
(1916) - Gertrude Damian Hammond
The Cuckoo Clock
(1931) - C E Brock
The Cuckoo Clock
(1954 Dent) - E H Shepard
Fairy Stories
(1957 Harvill)

READING
Marghanita Laski : Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Ewing & Mrs Hodgson Burnett
(1950 Arthur Barker)
Roger Lancelyn Green : Mrs Molesworth
(1961 Bodley Head)
Jane Cooper : Mrd Molesworth
(2002 Pratts Folly Press Pb £20)

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