A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century
Daisy Ashford (Author)
Daisy (Margaret Mary Julia) Ashford was born in Petersham, Surrey
in 1881, the eldest of the three daughters of William Ashford and
the sixth child of his wife Emma. She dictated her first story,
'The Life of Father McSwiney', when she was four and finished her
last 'The Hangman's Daughter' when she was fourteen. The Young
Visiters was written in 1890 soon after the family moved to Lewes,
Sussex. Daisy was thirty-six when The Young Visiters was
rediscovered and it was published two years later in 1919. In the
following January she married James Devlin and spent the rest of
her life in Norfolk. They had four children. Although all five of
her other stories that survived from her childhood were published,
she never took up writing again. She died in January 1972.
Posy Simmonds (Illustrator)
Posy Simmonds is the author of many books for adults and children,
including Gemma Bovery, Lulu and the Flying Babies and Fred, the
film of which was nominated for an Oscar. She has won international
awards for her work, including the 2009 Grand prix de la critique
bande dessinee for Tamara Drewe and the 2024 Grand Prix at France's
Angoulame International Comics festival for a lifetime's
achievement. Both Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe have been made into
successful feature films. Her third graphic novel, Cassandra Darke
was published in 2018. She lives in London.
Lucy Mangan (Introducer)
Lucy Mangan is a columnist for Stylist magazine and a features
writer and reviewer for The Guardian, The Telegraph and many other
publications. She broadcasts frequently on radio and occasionally
on television, and is the author My Family and Other Disasters, The
Reluctant Bride, Hopscotch and Handbags and Inside Charlie's
Chocolate Factory.
I adore The Young Visiters, with its delightful voice and exuberant
spellings... A blissful book
*Nina Stibbe*
Funny and touching... one of my favourite comfort reads
*Ruth Ware*
If you haven’t read The Young Visiters before you’re in for a
treat. Mr Salteena will make you laugh on even the grimmest of
days
*Tracy Chevalier*
A total one off, a magic book that has been in the shelves almost
all my life and which I go back to with a thrill every decade to so
to remind myself why I love it so much
*Juliet Nicolson*
Wonderful… A forgotten gem of a book but so influential in so many
ways
*Joanne Harris*
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