Mrs. Molesworth 2 hr 6 min read

Two small children, constantly together, find their way into an enchanted garden and the fairy tales within it.

Mrs. Molesworth's 1892 collection opens with the bickering, inseparable Alix and Rafe and leads them into gentle Victorian fairyland, in the warm, observant style that made her a beloved children's author. A charming period piece of nursery fantasy. Read it for tender, well-told fairy stories from one of the great Victorian writers for children.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 6 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

William John Hennessy