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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

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Daisy Ashford's "The Young Visiters"

I wrote for Public Books about Daisy Ashford’s The Young Visiters, a best-selling comic novel from 1919, written when its author was nine. The novel is about social climbing, and my essay is about knowing and not knowing.

Posted on 10 September 2020Author Caleb CrainCategories children, children's literature, criticism, items new in print, novels

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