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	Ashford on Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Young Visiters was Daisy's magnum opus, though not her solum opus, apparently, because she had already written The Life of Father McSwiney at the age of four (dictated to her mother).
		On the question of Daisy's grasp of matters relating to the Elizabethan age, I can only echo J.M. Barrie, who declared that the accuracy of her portrayal of Victorian social life in The Young Visiters is something "we cannot doubt, the authoress seems always so sure of her facts".
		Daisy's preferred method was to start at the top left-hand corner of the page and just keep going until she hit the bottom right-hand corner.
	www.geocities.com /ketmanweb/oxo.htm (1855 words)

	Margaret Mary Julia ('Daisy') Ashford (1881-1972), Child author
		Margaret Mary Julia 'Daisy' Ashford was born in Petersham, Surrey and is celebrated for the book she wrote when she was nine, The Young Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan.
		Ashford rediscovered the book in 1919 when it was first published.
		Ashford wrote nothing further but her book was turned into a musical in 1968 and a television special in 2003, starring Jim Broadbent.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp58888 (147 words)

	The Young Visiters (2003) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Salteena's Plan" was written by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890 (yes, 1890!) and is an innocent yet inadvertently amusing spoof of Victorian society.
		Daisy and her sisters came upon a bundle of notebooks neatly tied and stored whilst clearing their mother's house following her death.
		Daisy, always shy and modest had to take to giving readings in London to dispell the myth that Barrie was the author.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0379053 (608 words)

	Daisy Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Written by American heiress Daisy Corning Stone Spedden for her son Douglas--as a Christmas present the year after they escaped the doomed Titanic--this charming and intriguing story gives an enthralling account of the disaster as seen through the eyes of Stephen's teddy bear.
		In LONG SHADOW OF LITTLE ROCK Daisy Bates, who was the leader of the Arkansas state chapter of the NAACP, tells of her role in the effort to enroll nine fl students in Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.
		Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author recounts her life as a fl woman struggling with prejudice and change in Cuba over the span of 90 years.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Daisy (1106 words)

	frieze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters - published in 1919 with a preface by J.M. Barrie - is a novel of romance and class mobility like no other.
		In breathless prose it tells two intertwined stories: Mr Alfred Salteena, 'an elderly man of 42', comes to court in London, attempting to become a proper gentleman, while pretty Ethel Monticue is wooed and won by Bernard Clark, a soulful country squire with 'nice long legs'.
		According to Barrie's preface, Ashford 'was one of a small family who lived in the country, invented their own games, dodged the governess, and let the rest of the world go hang'.
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	Boston.com / A&E / TV / 'The Young Visiters' offers whimsical charms
		Back in 1890, a 9-year-old girl named Daisy Ashford wrote a novel for her sick mother called "The Young Visiters." Its spelling was wildly incorrect, most obviously in the title and in a segment involving "the Prince of Whales," but its view of adult behavior was quite...
		Back in 1890, a 9-year-old girl named Daisy Ashford wrote a novel for her sick mother called "The Young Visiters." Its spelling was wildly incorrect, most obviously in the title and in a segment involving "the Prince of Whales," but its view of adult behavior was quite unmistaken.
		Although Ashford didn't publish the book until 1919, after it had languished with her mother's things for years, she left its childlike purity of vision intact.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2004/11/03/the_young_visiters_offers_whimsical_charms?mode=PF (698 words)

	boys clothing depictions in movies : The Young Visiters
		The TV adaptation of the Young Visiters is based on Daisy Ashford's humerous novel of the same title.
		It was published just as Daisy wrote it, including her childish spelling errorts--even the title.
		Daisy set her book in contemporary England, meaning the 1890s.
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	New Statesman - Bookshop - Sugar and spice - Bee Wilson on a childhood favourite that exposes the childishness in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ashford never wrote anything as a grown-up, and there have always been rumours that her "manuscript" was really the creation of Barrie.
		Ashford's is a distinctive voice, the voice of a novelist at the height of her powers.
		But if Ashford had been fully grown when she wrote these lines, literary critics would call them not mistakes, but telling disclosures.
	www.newstatesman.com /Bookshop/300000077982 (964 words)

	THE YOUNG VISITORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Paddock presents a theatrical adaptation of Daisy Ashford’s cult classic, The Young Visiters, with four actors, a screen, a pianist and many, many hats.
		The Young Visiters was written in 1890 when Daisy Ashford was nine years old and has never been out of print since it was first published in 1919.
		This heart-felt tale of social climbing and unrequited love told through the eyes of a nine year old must be one of the funniest — unintentionally — and most charming stories ever told.
	www.theatreroyal.org.uk /usti/youngvisiters.html (117 words)

	BBC America - The Young Visiters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1890, nine-year-old Margaret Mary Julia "Daisy" Ashford put pencil to paper, writing a chapter a day.
		Then, Daisy decided to publish it, and a literary classic was born.
		Daisy had grown up in the English countryside, where she must have astutely observed all visitors to her family's house, and listened to their stories of London and the aristocracy.
	www.bbcamerica.com /genre/drama_mysteries/the_young_visiters/the_young_visiters.jsp (146 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'In Your Dreams' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tom Holt has been writing since the 1970s and has produced some 30 or so novels, even though he was born only in 1961.
		The precocious son of Hazel Holt, the friend and biographer of Barbara Pym, he brought out a book of poems when he was 11 and was naturally compared to Daisy Ashford, who scribbled her classic The Young Visiters at the age of 9.
		Ashford never repeated her youthful success (though she published other books), but in his early twenties Holt amazed again with a pair of excellent sequels to the comic Lucia masterpieces of E.F. Benson.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8037-2005Jan13?language=printer (990 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: Daisy Ashford: The Young Visiters
		On Friday last, Mrs GOB and I attended a theatrical adaptation of Daisy Ashford's novel The Young Visiters.
		In 1917, at the age of 36, Daisy found her early manuscript in a drawer, and lent it to a friend who was recuperating from flu.
		The humour lies, of course, in the fact that Daisy writes about adult love affairs and marriage without ever quite understanding how such affairs are conducted.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2005/11/daisy-ashford-young-visiters.html (496 words)

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		Although based on the writings of a child (9-year-old Daisy Ashford, to be precise), "The Young Visiters" is a family film but not really a children's story.
		I confess to having been previously unaware of the precocious Ashford, whose late-19th century novel is much beloved in her native England.
		What's ultimately astonishing is all the underlying elements Daisy Ashford got right, not only about society and status, but about the relationships between men and women.
	www.hughlaurie.net /youngvisiters.html (3515 words)

	Girl's vision of 1890 Britain is surreal and fun
		But back in 1890, a young, clearly precocious 9-year-old girl named Daisy Ashford wrote a "novel" for her ailing mother called "The Young Visiters" (the title being one of many misspellings), which was discovered 29 years later and turned from the free-form whimsy of a child's imagination into a real book.
		What little Daisy Ashford dreamed up and put on paper is the tale of sad Alfred Salteena, who lives in dreary East Dulwich, outside of London.
		As Laurie says in the notes to the film: "(Ashford) has included details that no adult writer would think to observe and in other instances there are points which she has completely missed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/01/DDGHC9IVEL1.DTL (741 words)

	TV Notes: Broadbent stars in Victorian comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The much loved Victorian comic novel was written in 1890 by 9-year-old Daisy Ashford, who wasn't good at spelling -- hence the title -- but was an acute observer of grown-ups' foibles.
		He plays Alfred Salteena, described by Daisy as "an elderly man of 42." In the hopes of winning the heart of a pretty young lady, Ethel Monticue, Salteena attempts to introduce her into society, despite the fact he only has a limited acquaintance with one aristocrat.
		He believes it's "gentle and it's charming and it's funny and it's true," but he is a little puzzled as to how to promote it.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04307/405151.stm (1071 words)

	Durham Literature Festival 2005 - The Young Visiters
		unique is that its author, Daisy Ashford, wrote it when she was nine years old.
		JM Barrie agreed to write the preface and an amazed public, unable to accept that a 9 year old could have possibly written it assumed that Daisy did not exist and that Barrie was the author.
		This conveys the extent to which the author speaks through her characters: Martina Clarke as Ethel conveys young Daisy's enthusiasms, not only for the lovingly detailed clothes but also for sweet things, such as "A glorious tea...
	www.literaturefestival.co.uk /2005/visiters.html (657 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| Juvenilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Daisy Ashford, the 9-year-old authoress, was (probably) young enough not to understand her own double entendres.
		Well so will you said Ethel in a snappy tone and she ran out of the room with a very superier run throwing out her legs behind and her arms swinging in rithum.
		While Austen and King-Hall had perfect control of their humor, Ashford probably didn't mean her book to be quite as funny as it is. "The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems," by Nathalia Crane, falls somewhere in the middle.
	www.salon.com /mwt/wild/1999/05/18/juvenilia/index1.html (701 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: The Young Visiters Review
		And despite the film's naivite and innocence, I found the young and terribly precocious Daisy Ashford unexpectedly insightful.
		It includes more interesting details about Daisy Ashford, but when the filmmakers and players discuss the film and the characters, the short becomes no more complex than the usual fluff piece.
		There are nine biographies that include the principal players and author Daisy Ashford.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_11/youngvisiters.html (903 words)

	The Young Visiters : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the second time Daisy Ashford´s famous book has been filmed for UK television.
		So, the overall result is a mildly amusing but perplexing comedy of manners with the characters delivering odd speeches and unfathomable mannerisms, and seemingly unable to spell when they write letters to each other.
		If you watch this and enjoy it, that´s great, but in my opinion the spirit of Daisy Ashford´s book has been all but wrung out of it.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00062J0ZS.html (662 words)

	Daisy Ashford Quotations
		Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
		Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella that parodies upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old.
		The novella was published in 1919 with a foreword by J.M. Barrie and remains in print in the United Kingdom to this day.
	www.quotationsbook.com /quotes/7462/view (277 words)

	University of Durham Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 1890 nine year old Daisy Ashford wrote The Young Visiters.
		Daisy’s masterpiece has never been out of print since and is a cult classic, loved by everyone who has read it.
		This theatrical adaptation is the first reproduce the book word for word, keeping intact all the wit and charm of Daisy Ashford’s narrative voice.
	www.dur.ac.uk /news.service/printer_friendly.php?itemID=1259&item_type=events (124 words)

	The Stage Online :: Edinburgh 2004 :: Reviews :: Adam Bede
		Alongside Tilly Tremayne as a sprightly Mrs Poyser, the standout performances come from Christopher Harper’s Arthur and Daisy Ashford’s Hetty.
		His Arthur is a dashing lover, torn between a longing for pretty young Hetty, his filial duty to class and a lifelong friendship with Adam as his romantic rival.
		Daisy Ashford, Charlotte Asprey, Peter Forbes, Christopher Harper, Jack Sandle, Tilly Tremayne
	www.thestage.co.uk /edinburgh/reviews/review.php/6649 (363 words)

	Archers Addicts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The production attracted high praise from Daisy’s now 80-year-old daughter, Margaret Steel, when she saw it last year.
		The Young Visiters, penned by nine-year-old Daisy in1890, became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1920, with a foreword by J M Barrie, and has never been out of print since.
		Told through a child’s eyes, it is one of the funniest and most charming tales of unrequited love and social climbing ever told.
	www.thearchers.co.uk /archers/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=141&ItemID=1945&tabIndex=0 (258 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog
		A friend read Ed Park’s essay on Lee Tandy Schwartzman’s Crippled Detectives and then reminded me of another novel written by a child: Daisy Ashford’s The Young Visiters.
		Ashford wrote the novel in 1890, at the age of 9.
		Maud, but he may be the first to give him a shout-out.
	maudnewton.com /blog?p=5207 (482 words)

	Literary Magazine
		The complete texts, and/or more information about several stories referred to in the text, are available through this site at the following links: My Country and the Way to America by Huong Nguyen, The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford, and Make the Morning by James Lindbloom.
		In Britain and in the United States in the early 1920s naïve writing by children achieved bestseller status: The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford in England and The Story of Opal by Opal Whitely in the United States.
		We see ourselves as directly linked to the artists and writers who, in the first part of the century, recognized in children’s creative work hints of the courage to solve creative problems in personal and original ways that they were looking for in their own artistic lives.
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	Broadbent stars in, produced ‘Visiters’ - Children's TV - MSNBC.com
		The much loved Victorian comic novel was written in 1890 by 9-year-old Daisy Ashford, who wasn’t good at spelling — hence the title — but was an acute observer of grown-ups’ foibles.
		He’s aware that American viewers unacquainted with “The Young Visiters” — still extremely popular in England — may find Daisy’s tale a little odd.
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	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6331705 (572 words)

	Yesterday's Gallery Rare Books and Prints
		Fine in VG plus dj, with small chip front panel, shallow chips at lower spine end.
		Collection of the remaining novels by the author of The Young Visiters, together with The Jealous Governess by Angela Ashford.
		NF bright copy, in VG plus dj, with short closed tear rear panel, some nicks at spine ends and flap corners.
	www.yesterdaysgallery.com /CatalogTwo/EraLiteratureAD.htm (1075 words)

	Broadbent Stars, Produces 'Young Visiters' - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		The much loved Victorian comic novel was written in 1890 by 9-year-old Daisy Ashford, who wasn't good at spelling _ hence the title _ but was an acute observer of grown-ups' foibles.
		The versatile 55-year-old actor, who won an Academy Award for his supporting role in 2001's "Iris," is both star and executive producer of the TV adaptation, which airs 8 p.m.
		He's aware that American viewers unacquainted with "The Young Visiters" _ still extremely popular in England _ may find Daisy's tale a little odd.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6331557 (545 words)

	Stella Gibbons - Ticky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is hard to describe the style of the book except to say that it appears to be by Daisy Ashford out of Ouida, but is more knowing than either.
		This is hardly surprising given the origins of the story, and Stella's lifelong passion for Ouida.
		The Club, which is the home of the First Bloods, is the fantastic construct of a childish imagination, not dissimilar to the Crystal Palace in Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters: 'The mighty building with its twin glass towers glittered darkly against the heavens, which were still partly obscured by flying clouds.
	www.catharton.com /stellagibbons/worksticky.html (1223 words)

	John Dinsmore & Associates, Booksellers
		"Text first published in Daisy Ashford: Her Book 1920" Dark brown cloth lettered gilt at spine.
		B&W photograph of the three Ashford sisters at rear panel.
		Contents: Daisy Ashford: "A Short Story of Love and Marriage" and "The True History of Leslie Woodcock." Angela Ashford: "The Jealous Governes, or, The Granted Wish."
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