The Young Lady's Book (nonfiction)

The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits is a book by Matilda Anne Planché Mackarness.

Matilda Anne Mackarness, born 23 November 1825, was the younger daughter of James Robinson Planché and of Elizabeth St. George. From an early age Miss Planché wrote novels and moral tales for children. As a novelist she took Dickens for her model and in 1845 she published Old Joliffe which was thought to be a satire of Dickens' 1844 Christmas story The Chimes. The following year she published A Sequel to Old Joliffe. In 1849 she published A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, a brightly written little tale with a moral, and it is on this production that her reputation chiefly rests. It was composed some three years before the date of publication, had gone through forty-two editions, by 1882, and has been translated into many foreign languages, including Hindustani.

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• Matilda Anne Mackarness @ Wikipedia