<p>Ours is the brown dust jacket with the script title.  This book was written by an eight year old girl some time around the turn of the century. It is a story of courtship. The author had read many of the clasic novels on the subject. Combined with the experiences of a child, the result is a book filled with unintentional humor.The result is that her characters are at once children and adults. When taken for a ride in a carriage, her heroin kneels on her trunk and looks out the window, bouncing up and down in her excitement. When Mr. Salteena, whose ambition it is to be a "real gentleman," is presented at court the Prince of Whales offers him ice cream. When he goes to visit London, Mr. Salteena sees nothing improper about sending the heroin to stay with the hero, chaperoned. They fall in love and marry, much to the disappointment of Mr. Salteena who loves her too. He consoles himself by eating some of the wonderful deserts at their wedding supper.This is one of the funniest books ever written.</p>

The Young Visiters: Or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

Biographies & Memoirs

Daisy Ashford

Arts & Literature

DOUBLEDAY

The Young Visiters is the book that started the schoolchild genre subsequently defined by 1066 and All That and Molesworth's various manuals such as Down with Skool and Whizz for Atoms. As with The Young Visiters, the grammar, the language and the authorial viewpoint of those classics contribute much to our enjoyment. Unlike its descendants, The Young Visiters probably wasn't written by an adult. Purportedly written by a 9-year-old girl in Victorian England, her inadvertent send-up of Victorian social mores, "status-climbing", and middle class ideas of gentility are absolutely delightful. She also disposes of her characters in an abrupt and very satisfying way. If you like the book, you will also enjoy the movie, which is fully as delightful.

The Young Visiters or Mr.Salteena's Plan

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Chatto&Windus

The Young Visiters or Mr. Salteena's Plan

The Young Visiters

Genre Fiction

CHATTO & WINDUS (RAN

<p>This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing.</p>

Literary

Academy Chicago Publishers

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