Within two years it had sold 230,000 copies, given rise to a stage play, and caused a rumpus in literary London. Barrie and with the manuscript’s many spelling mistakes faithfully reproduced. The Young Visiters was published in 1919 but written in 1890, when its author was 9. of his unrequited love for the fair and flighty Ethel Monticue, of Bernard Clark’s dashing and successful wooing of Ethel, together with some very rich, costly pictures of High Socierty, a levie at Buckingham Palace, a description of the Compartments at the Crystale Palace occupied by Earls and Dukes, and a very surprising account of the goings on at the Gaierty Hotel.’Īs Ashford aficionados will know, this quotation is not symptomatic of eccentric proofreading. The novel was The Young Visiters, summarized by Mansfield thus: ‘This is the story of Mr Salteena’s plan to become a real gentleman. The reviewer was Katherine Mansfield the novelist was a 39-year-old secretary called Daisy Ashford. On, the Athenaeum published a review of a new novel.
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