Author Description

Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as "Tell Me a Story" (1875), "Carrots" (1876), "The Cuckoo Clock" (1877), "The Tapestry Room" (1879), and "A Christmas Child" (1880). She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery," while "The Carved Lions" (1895) "is probably her masterpiece."