Excerpt from The New Parents Assistant
Miss Emily Lawless, in that delightful book, the 'Life of Maria Edgeworth,' told us how 'The Parent's Assistant' came to be written. It was the work of a girl not long out of the school-room, with a crowd of little brothers and sisters always round her; it was written to amuse herself and them:
'These tales were begun without any idea of publication, simply for the benefit of her particular charge "little Henry," and of such of the small brothers and sisters as came nearest to him in age. They were written out upon a school-room slate; were altered; were added to; were approved of, or summarily condemned, entirely according to the verdict of her short-petticoated judges... That the stories themselves owe their really extraordinary vitality largely to this method of production we cannot doubt. They are stories for children, written, not from above, but from a level; from the point of view of those to whom they were addressed.'
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