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A nine-year-old’s spelling reached print
Daisy Ashford wrote a novella about English upper-class society when she was nine. Published in 1919, it preserved her childhood spelling and punctuation. The book succeeded, and she bought a farm with its proceeds.
A childhood manuscript helped reshape its author’s adult life.
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