Two motherless girls, Mary and Caroline, are placed in the care of Mrs. Mason, who teaches them through walks, conversations and stories of real people: kindness to animals, the dangers of anger and lying, the history of crazy Robin, Jane Fretful and Lady Sly, and the habits of charity and reason that should form a good character.
The only children’s book by the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an early classic of didactic fiction. Download the free EPUB.