A motherless family of brothers and sisters try to run their own household and discover how much they do not know. Yonge wrote for girls and did not soften the consequences of foolishness. This edition adds a gallery of 56 plates after painters including Marianne North, Edward Hicks and Arthur Hughes, alongside one restored and coloured illustration.
Engels
Friarswood Post-Office : A Village Post-Office and a Wandering Boy
The Herd Boy and His Hermit : A Shepherd Boy in the Wars of the Roses
Under the Storm : or, Steadfast's Charge
Beechcroft at Rockstone : Three Girls and a Strict Aunt
Chantry House : A Family Haunted by an Old Wrong
Cameos from English History : From Rollo to Edward II
A Modern Telemachus : Shipwrecked Children Cross Barbary
Nuttie's Father : A Girl Finds the Father She Never Knew
Stray Pearls : Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise
Love and Life : An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
The Armourer's Prentices : London Apprentices Under Henry VIII