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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The Young Visiters
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(1890) Classic child's-eye-view of romance and high society. Written at the age of nine by Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), the manuscript was rediscovered in 1917 and published in 1919 with a preface by J.M. *Barrie. In racy narrative and wildly eccentric spelling, the book tells of the love of Ethel Monticue for Bernard Clark and of the efforts to rise in society of the irrepressible Mr Salteena, who says of himself 'I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature' and 'I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it'.
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