author
Best known for a small, whimsical children’s book preserved by Project Gutenberg, this elusive author remains something of a mystery. The surviving work suggests a playful taste for moral tales and talking-animal storytelling.
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author appears to be available online. Reliable catalog and ebook sources identify G. Boare as the author of What Became of Them? and, The Conceited Little Pig, a vintage children’s book that has been preserved in digital libraries.
The book is associated with illustrator A. M. Lockyer and with the publisher Hildesheimer & Faulkner of London, pointing to a place in the tradition of lightly comic, cautionary children’s literature. One Project Gutenberg note also observes that the text names the author as G. Boare at the opening and G. Boase at the end, so even the byline may have circulated in more than one form.
Because so little has been firmly documented, the author’s life story is still largely unknown. What remains is the work itself: a curious, old-fashioned children’s title remembered more than a century later through library archives and public-domain preservation.