author
Angela Ashford
Best remembered as the sister of Daisy Ashford, she left behind a charming glimpse of childhood imagination in "The Jealous Governes," a story written when she was just eight years old. Her small surviving body of work has become a curious companion piece to one of the Edwardian era's most famous juvenile literary successes.
1 Audiobook
Daisy Ashford: Her Book
by Daisy Ashford, Angela Ashford
About the author
Angela Ashford is chiefly known through her connection to the Ashford literary family. Project Gutenberg and library records identify her as the author of "The Jealous Governes; or, The Granted Wish," a childhood story that was later published alongside her sister Daisy Ashford's work in Daisy Ashford: Her Book.
What makes her memorable is the same quality that drew readers to Daisy Ashford: an unfiltered child's view of the adult world. Angela's contribution was written when she was only eight, and it survives as a playful, accidental snapshot of family life, social rules, and the wonderfully confident logic of childhood writing.
Very little biographical information about her is readily confirmed from standard reference sources, so her reputation today rests mainly on that one preserved piece and on her place in the story of the Ashford sisters' early literary fame.