Daisy Ashford Quotes


We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.


Citations

Ashford, Daisy. The Young Visiters. Chatto & Windus, 1919.

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Daisy Ashford
Daisy Ashford
  • Born: April 3, 1881
  • Died: January 15, 1972
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Margaret Mary Julia Devlin, known as Daisy Ashford, was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation. She wrote the title as "Viseters" in her manuscript, but it was published as "Visiters".