| Notes: No publisher date (circa late 1800s). Book curse stamped on front paste-down endpaper. 75 pp. Illustration of porthole looking out at ship at sea on front board. Frontispiece and plates by Eliot Keen. Evelyn Whitaker (1857-1903) was an English children's author, who published nineteen novels and a number of short stories, all anonymously. Her work, which falls within the genre of sentimental Christian fiction so popular in the Victorian era, was informed by a specifically Anglican sensibility. |