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The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse

Dorothy Kilner

FormatEbook
Published1999
Words30,148
LanguageEnglish
ReadingIncluded
About this book
An eighteenth-century work of children's fiction narrated by a mouse named Nimble, who recounts his life and travels among human households to teach young readers moral lessons. It will interest those studying early children's literature and the didactic writing of the period.
Dorothy Kilner

Dorothy Kilner

Dorothy Kilner, who used the pseudonyms M. P. and Mary Pelham, was a prolific English writer of children's books. She combined a didactic approach with a strong knowledge of children's character. Her best known work was The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse (1784).

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