Pansie's Flour-Bin 1880 Eliza Tabor Stephenson ~ Victorian Children's

Title: Pansie's Flour-Bin
Author: By the author of 'St. Olaves,' 'When I Was a Little Girl,' Nine Years Old,' etc. etc. [Eliza Tabor Stephenson] / Illustrated by Adrian Stokes
Publication: London: Macmillan and Co., 1880

Description: Blue cloth boards with surreal pictorial on front cover. Some general wear and darkening to covers. Interior is unmarked. A few instances of minor page soiling. Eight illustrated plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 177 pages. Scarce. Eight copies located in WorldCat institutions (incl.The British Library, National Lib of Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, UCLA, Univ Florida).

The story of a young English girl, Pansie Moss, and her imaginative life at home, featuring an extended dream adventure in Fairyland, located inside her aunt's flour bin. The character of Pansie was likely modeled on the author's own step-daughters, Lilian and Lucie, who, like Pansie, spent their early childhoods in India. The author and her step-children returned to England in 1880, the year that Pansie's Flour-Bin was published.

Eliza Tabor Stephenson (1835-1914) was an English writer and the author of both novels and books for children. Her first novel was published in 1861. In Bombay, in 1875, she married the widower and senior chaplain, John Stephenson.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG-

Keywords: Victorian, children's, fiction,