author
G. M. George
Known today mainly for the children’s book Plain Jane, this elusive writer left behind a small but memorable piece of early 20th-century nursery literature. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the work an old-fashioned, slightly mysterious charm.
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Plain Jane
by G. M. George
About the author
G. M. George is a little-documented author associated with Plain Jane, a children’s book first published in 1903. The book appeared as number 27 in the Dumpy Books for Children series and was illustrated by G. M. C. Fry.
Because so little verified biographical information is readily available, most modern references focus on the book rather than on the author’s life. That makes G. M. George one of those writers who is remembered chiefly through a single surviving title.
Plain Jane has continued to circulate through library catalogs, reprints, and Project Gutenberg, suggesting a modest but lasting afterlife for the work. For readers, the appeal is partly literary and partly historical: it offers a glimpse of children’s publishing in the early 1900s, even if the person behind it remains mostly in the background.