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Angela Ashford
Remembered mainly through a charming literary family connection, this early 20th-century English writer is best known for a single childhood story that was published alongside her sister Daisy Ashford’s work. Her surviving piece offers the same playful, youthful imagination that made the Ashford sisters a small literary curiosity.
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Daisy Ashford: Her Book
by Daisy Ashford, Angela Ashford
About the author
Angela Ashford was the younger sister of Daisy Ashford, the English author whose childhood novel The Young Visiters became a surprise success in 1919. Sources on Angela are limited, but they agree that she was one of the three Ashford sisters educated at home in England, and that her contribution to the family’s literary legacy came from writing as a child.
She is best known for The Jealous Governess; or, The Granted Wish, a story she wrote at about eight years old. That piece was later included in Daisy Ashford: Her Book (1920), a collection built around Daisy Ashford’s early writings and edited in the wake of renewed public interest in the sisters’ youthful work.
Because so little biographical detail is consistently documented, Angela Ashford is best approached as a fascinating minor figure in literary history: not a prolific public author, but part of a remarkable family moment when the childhood writings of two sisters were preserved and published for later readers.