Лучшие книги Маргарэт Мэри Джулия Эшворт

От переводчика: "Дейзи Эшфорд прославилась, сочинив "Малодые гости, или План мистера Солтины". Детское имя автора ("Дейзи" – распространенное сокращение от "Маргарет") отражает время написания, когда ей было девять лет. Несмотря на многочисленные слухи о литературной мистификации, все истинная правда: она действительно существовала, ее полное имя было Маргарет Мэри Джулия Эшфорд (впоследствии Девлин), а даты жизни с 7 апреля 1881 г. по 15 января 1972 г., и действительно самостоятельно, без чьей-либо помощи и подсказки, написала весь текст "романа". Рукопись хранится в берговской коллекции Нью-йоркской публичной библиотеки".

The Young Visiters is the unaided effort in fiction of an authoress of nine years. Effort, however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work. This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six) :it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness. It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece. It probably represents precisely how she looked when she finished a chapter.
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