Mrs Mary Louise Stewart Molesworth
Female : Children's
novelist. Calvinist. Married Major Richard Molesworth in 1861, later
divorced. She went to live in France. Published 100 books
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Rotterdam, Holland
Date of Birth : 1839 Date of Death : 1921 Age : 83
Pseudonyms : Ennis Graham
Published by Macmillan unless stated
1870-1880
Lover and Husband (1870)
She Was Young and He Was Old (1872)
Cicely (1874)
Tell Me a Story (1875)
- As Ennis Graham. Walter Crane
Carrots : Just a Little Boy (1876)
as Ennis Graham - Walter Crane
The Cuckoo Clock (1877)
as Ennis Graham - Walter Crane
Grandmother Dear : A Book for Boys & Girls (1878)
- Walter Crane
The Tapestry Room : A Child's Romance (1879)
- Walter Crane
Miss Bouverie (1880)
A Christmas Child : A Sketch of a Boy-Life (1880)
- Walter Crane
1881-1885
Hermy : The Story of a Little Girl (1881 Routledge)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
The Adventures of Herr Baby (1881)
- Walter Crane
Hoodie (1882 Routledge)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
Summer Stories for Boys and Girls (1882)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
Rosy (1882)
- Walter Crane
The Boys and I (1883 Routledge)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
Two Little Waifs (1883)
- Walter Crane
Christmas Tree Land (1884)
- Walter Crane
The Little Old Portrait (1884 SPCK)
- W Gunston
Lettice (1884 SPCK)
- Frank Dadd
Us : An Old Fashioned Story (1885)
- Walter Crane
1886-1889
A Charge Fulfilled (1886 SPCK)
- R Caton
Silverthorns (1887 Hatchards)
- J Noel Paton
Four Winds Farm (1887)
- Walter Crane
Little Miss Peggy (1887)
- Walter Crane
The Palace in the Garden (1887 Hatchards)
- Harriet M Bennett]
Marrying and Giving in Marriage (1887)
The Abbey by the Sea and Felix, An Outcast (1887 SPCK)
- Frank Dadd
The Third Miss St Quentin (1888 Hatchards)
Four Ghost Stories (1888)
Five Minute Stories (1888 SPCK)
- Gordon Browne et al
A Christmas Posy (1888)
- Walter Crane
The Rectory Children (1889)
- Walter Crane
A House to Let (1889 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
Great Uncle Hoot-Toot (1889 SPCK)
- Gordon Browne et al
The Old Pincushion, or Aunt Clotilda's Guests (1889 Griffith & Farran)
- Mrs A Hope
Neighbours (1889 Hatchards)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
Nesta, or Fragments of a Little Life (1889 Chambers)
1890-1891
The Green Casket & other Stories (1890 Chambers)
- R Barnes & W J Morgan
Twelve Tiny Tales (1890 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
Family Troubles (Mr Nobody)
(1890 SPCK, London & Young, NY)
- W J Morgan
The Children of the Castle (1890)
- W Crane
Little Mother Bunch (1890 Cassell)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
The Story of a Spring Morning & Other Tales (1890 Longman)
- Mary Ellen Edwards
The Red Grange (1891 Methuen)
- Gordon Browne
The Bewitched Lamp (1891 Chambers)
- Robert Barnes
The Lucky Ducks & other Stories (1891 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
Sweet Content (1891 Griffiths & Farran)
- William Rainey
Nurse Heatherdale's Story (1891)
- L Leslie Brooke
1892-1895
The Girls and I : A Veracious History (1892)
- L Leslie Brooke
Imogen, or Only Eighteen (1892 Chambers)
- Herbert A Bone
An Enchanted Garden - Fairy Stories (1892 T Fisher Unwin)
- W J Hennessy
Farthings : the Story of a Stray and a Waif (1892 Wells Gardner)
- G M Bradley
The Man with the Pan-Pipes & Other Stories (1892 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
Robin Redbreast : A Story for Girls (1892 Chambers)
(1894 Whittaker, NY)
- Robert Barnes
The Next-Door House (1893 Chambers)
- W Hatherell
Studies and Stories (1893 A D Innes)
- W Crane
The Thirteen Little Black Pigs & Other Stories (1893 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
Mary : A Nursery Story for Very Little Children (1893)
- L Leslie Brooke
Olivia : A Story for Girls (1893 Chambers)
(1895 Lippincott)
- Robert Barnes
Blanche : A Story for Girls (1894 Chambers)
- Robert Barnes
My New Home (1894)
- L Leslie Brooke
The Carved Lions (1895)
- L Leslie Brooke
Sheila's Mystery (1895)
- L Leslie Brooke
Opposite Neighbours & Other Stories (1895 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
1896-1900
White Turrets (1896 Chambers)
- William Rainey
Friendly Joey & Other Stories (1896 SPCK)
- W J Morgan
The Oriel Window (1896)
- L Leslie Brooke
Uncanny Tales (1896 Hutchinson)
Miss Mouse and Her Boys (1897)
- L Leslie Brooke
Philippa (1897 Chambers)
- J Finnemore
Meg Langholme, or The Day After Tomorrow (1897 Chambers)
- William Rainey
Stories for Children in Illustration of the Lord's Prayer (1897 Gardner & Darton)
- Gordon Browne et al
Greyling Towers : A Story for the Young (1898 Chambers)
- Percy Tarrant
The Magic Nuts (1898)
- Rosie M Pitman
The Laurel Walk (1898)
The Grim House (1899 Nisbet)
- Warwick Goble
This and That : A Tale of Two Tinies (1899)
- Hugh Thomson
The Children's Hour (1899 Nelson)
The Three Witches (1900 Chambers)
- Lewis Baumer
The House that Grew (1900)
- Alice B Woodward
1901 Onwards
The Wood Pigeons and Mary (1901)
- H R Millar
My Pretty and Her Little Brother Too & Other stories (1901 Chambers)
- Lewis Baumer
The Blue Baby & Other stories (1901 Unwin)
- Maud C Foster
Peterkin (1902)
- H R Millar
The Mystery of the Pinewood and Hollow Tree House (1903 Nister)
- A A Dixon
The Ruby Ring (1904)
- Rosie Pitman
The Bolted Door & Other Stories (1906 Chambers)
- Lewis Baumer
The Wrong Envelope and Other stories (1906)
Jasper : A Story for Children (1906)
- Gertrude D Holland
The Little Guest : A Story for Children (1907 Macmillan)
- Gertrude D Holland
Fairies - of Sorts (1908)
- Gertrude D Holland
The February Boys (1909 Chambers)
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
The Story of a Year (1910)
- Gertrude D Holland
The Old Pincushion (1910 Chambers)
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
Fairies Afield (1911)
- Gertrude D Holland
The Cuckoo Clock (1914 Lippincott)
- Maria L Kirk
Edmee : A Tale of the French Revolution (1916)
- Gertrude Damian Hammond
The Cuckoo Clock (1931)
- C E Brock
The Cuckoo Clock (1954 Dent)
- E H Shepard
Fairy Stories (1957 Harvill)
READING
Marghanita Laski : Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Ewing & Mrs Hodgson Burnett
(1950 Arthur Barker)
Roger Lancelyn Green : Mrs Molesworth (1961 Bodley Head)
Jane Cooper : Mrd Molesworth (2002 Pratts Folly Press Pb £20)