author
Eleanor Raper
Best known for the early 20th-century children's story The Little Girl Lost, this little-documented writer left behind a book that places a young English girl in Peking and reflects the period's fascination with faraway settings.
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The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls
by Eleanor Raper
About the author
Available public information on this author is very limited. Reliable catalog and book-listing sources confirm that Eleanor Raper is associated with The Little Girl Lost: A Tale for Little Girls, a children's book first published in 1902.
The novel follows Nelly Grey, a young English girl born in China, and is set around the British Legation in Peking. That setting gives the story much of its distinctive character and helps explain why the book still attracts interest from readers exploring older children's fiction.
Because biographical records are scarce, it is hard to say much more with confidence about Eleanor Raper's life beyond her authorship of this work and a small listed body of books in public-domain and bookseller catalogs.