Netta Syrett 3 hr 12 min read

A little girl and her Godmother tour the enchanted history of London, the Great Fire, old pageants, wonders past, discovering that she lives in a truly magic city.

Netta Syrett's 1922 children's fantasy blends history and enchantment in a loving tour of old London. Warm, imaginative, illustrated juvenile fantasy. Read it for a charming period storybook that turns a great city's past into a wonderland for young readers.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 12 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Helen Jacobs