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Complete and unabridged, with 37 full-page plates by Luke Fildes, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Honoré Daumier. Two London orphans, Cecile and Maurice D'Albert, children of a French father and a Spanish mother, set out from London for the Pyrenees to find the grandmother they have never seen. L. T. Meade wrote for a Victorian public that liked its poverty rescued in the last chapter, and she gives them the rescue — after two hundred pages that are exact about hunger, cold and the price of a night's shelter. Cecile is ten, and the book knows what it is asking of her. Thirty-seven plates of London streets and hard roads by Luke Fildes and Thomas Creswick carry the children's journey out of the city and onto the open road.
Complete and unabridged, with 37 full-page plates by Luke Fildes, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Honoré Daumier. Two London orphans, Cecile and Maurice D'Albert, children of a French father and a Spanish mother, set out from London for the Pyrenees to find the grandmother they have never seen. L. T. ...
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L. T. Meade (1844–1914) was an Irish clergyman's daughter who wrote some three hundred books, largely for girls, edited a girls' magazine, and belonged to the Pioneer Club of advanced women. The school story as English girls knew it is half hers.
L. T. Meade (1844–1914) was an Irish clergyman's daughter who wrote some three hundred books, largely for girls, edited a girls' magazine, and belonged to the Pioneer Club of advanced women. The school story as English girls knew it is half hers.
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