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Did you ever wonder if a nine-year-old could write a novel worth reading? Daisy Ashford did, in 1890. (it was published later in 1919.)
It is a charming romance written by a girl who had read widely for age, and observed adults closely, but who didn't always understand the mores of her time. This naivety added to the charm of her work for her post-WWI readers, and is still touching today.


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The made for TV film of Daisy's book is hilarious and peopled with many great actors (Jim Broadbent, the inimitable Bill Nighy for two) but you MUST read the book flrst to understand the film and the joke.
Yes, the grammar and spelling will make your eyes water. However the very fact that we get to read a little girl's tale from long ago makes me happy to read and enjoy this funny little story.
Charming book. But the movie is terrific. Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent--hilarious and clever. Find it and watch it!
This is quite possibly the best domestic romance I have ever read. Miss Ashford is to be highly commended for her original invention and deft characterization, as well as consideration for the reader in explaining what she is doing..
I buy this whenever I come across it in a book sale, but wanted to introduce a favorite new relative to it so happily found a copy here. It is just simply one of the best books that captures the time, and was written at the time. I reread it at least twice a year.
How could I have gone these years and not read this book? It is sheer delight -- a precocious child's view of society life at the time. Having read so many novels all my life from that time and earlier, it is particularly amusing to read. It has the same appeal to me as old records of children's choirs singing adult rock songs. Charming, unintentionally funny, but remarkably savvy and innocent at the same time. I have already been recommending it to my well-read friends, though I don't think that's a requirement to appreciate the charm of this little book.
Would we enjoy this book as much if it was not written by a nine year old child? Was it written by a nine year old child? Does it appeal to Americans or to Britishers who are not familiar with the nuances of social pretensions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

Frank Swinnerton, and James Barrie are suspects for being the true authors but there good evidence (although I don't know if it's been recently reevaluated) for Daisy Ashford.

The compartments in the Crystal palace in which the nobility live seem to me to be authentic products of nine year old imagination. Small children often come up with gems like that. The ability to create a coherent plot and follow narrative theme for the length of a novel, even if only a sixty page one is unusual for even a talented child. Children are lazy and, even if they write at length, their stories become fragmented, lose their thread, and are often derivative. It takes adult skills and capacity for sustained hard work to write a coherent full-length work of fiction.. Ashford's failure to write after Barrie's death is suspicious..

Whatever the answers, the fact remains that I did enjoy it - treemendusly.
Did you ever wonder if a nine-year-old could write a novel worth reading? Daisy Ashford did, in 1890. (it was published later in 1919.)
It is a charming romance written by a girl who had read widely for age, and observed adults closely, but who didn't always understand the mores of her time. This naivety added to the charm of her work for her post-WWI readers, and is still touching today.