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A best-seller was written by a nine-year-old
In 1890, nine-year-old Daisy Ashford wrote a novel and forgot all about it. She gave up writing fiction for good at the age of 13. Some 28 years later, upon going through her mother’s house after she had died, Daisy and her sisters found the pencilled manuscript in a drawer.
They showed it to a friend, who passed it on to an acquaintance who worked in publishing, and so the book – The Young Visiters – came out in 1919 with a preface by Peter Pan author JM Barrie, who many people wrongly believed was the book’s author.The novel was praised for its clever plotting and keen observation of Victorian manners, and went into several editions.
The author, by now Mrs James Devlin, bought a farm with her earnings, commenting, “I like fresh air and royalty cheques”.
The Young Visiters is a comic masterpiece that has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1919. A classic story of life and love in later Victorian England as seen from the nursery window.
Nemophilist (pronounced ne-'mo-fe-list), is an obscure word that hasn't really been used for over 100 years.
It means someone with a love or fondness for forests, woods, or woodland scenery, or someone who often visits them – a 'haunter' of woods.
I Wish for an Image of …. a Nemophilist
AWESOME
I confess, I had to look it up and found it was a tree. I love trees.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. It now survives only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys in the border region of Hubei and Hunan provinces and Chongqing municipality in south-central China
I Wish for an Image of …. An impressive Oak Tree.
What if Lithium was replaced with Fluoride?
Would the mood mania be out of control but with cleaner teeth?Nirvana – Lithium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg
