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"The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan" by Daisy Ashford is a novel written in 1890 and published in 1919. Written when Ashford was just nine years old, this charming tale follows 42-year-old Alfred Salteena's ambitious plan to become a gentleman with help from the aristocratic Earl of Clincham. Meanwhile, his young guest Ethel Monticue finds romance with the wealthy Bernard Clark. The story's appeal lies in its juvenile innocence and unconventional spelling, becoming a surprising bestseller that sparked rumors of being an elaborate literary hoax. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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The "owner of the copyright" guarantees that "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. When she was actually at work I think the expression [Pg vi] was more solemn, with the tongue firmly clenched between the teeth; an unholy rapture showing as she drew near her love chapter. Fellow-craftsmen will see that she is looking forward to this chapter all the time.

The manuscript is in pencil in a stout little note book (twopence), and there it has lain for years, for though the authoress was nine when she wrote it she is now a grown woman. It has lain, in lavender as it were, in the dumpy note book, waiting for a publisher to ride that way and rescue it; and here he is at last, not a bit afraid that to this age it may appear "Victorian.

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