Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. The story „Pollyooly. A Romance of Long Felt Wants and the Red Haired Girl Who Filled Them” (1912) takes place prior to World War I. Pollyooly, whose given name is Mary Bride, is the 12-year-old housekeeper of John Ruffin, a London barrister. Pollyooly and her younger brother, Roger are orphans. Raised aby their aunt in a village, they come to London when her aunt is swindled out of her life’s savings and forced to find work as Ruffin’s cook and housekeeper. When their aunt is killed aby a motorist, Pollyooly tries to fill in for her aunt in order to keep both her and her brother out of the workhouse.
This early work was originally a four-act play written żeby Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset in 1908, and subsequently novelized aby Leblanc...21,61 zł
Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally...21,61 zł
The twins are living in relatively straightened circumstances, as their father has died, and get up to all kinds of mischief, while being governed...21,61 zł
„Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl” is a bride story. Jepson continues the story of his twelve year-old heroine, Mary Bride, known as...21,61 zł
Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy...21,61 zł
This novel was first published in 1920 and is along the lines of a classic whodunnit. Lord Loudwater is brash, short tempered and always bullying...21,61 zł
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