The Adventures of Madalene and Louisa Book

The imaginative authors/artists were 2 English girls -- Madalene and Louisa Pasley, and the album was compiled between the ages of 12 & 16. The sisters portrayed themselves as older women -- spinsters with glasses, who don't get along with their sister. Dustjacket proclaims that the illustrated outings and events of everyday life result in a "unique record of upper-class Victorian life as perceived by two shrewd children and an unihibited outpouring of remarkable imagination and artistic talent." Wonderful, fanciful illustrations of insects and animals as drawn by freedom loving girls who "preferred chasing beetles and butterflies" and after being "able to entomologise as much as we like with no one to bother us," became life long dedicated entomologists. Madalene was later the editor of the Mothers Union Journal - a quarterly which sold over 200,000 copies.Read More