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L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon

1862–1939

Best known for charming children's books and retellings, this late Victorian and Edwardian writer had a gift for making classic stories, Bible tales, and fairy stories easy for young readers to enjoy.

1 Audiobook

The golden story book

The golden story book

by L. L. (Lucy L.) Weedon, Sheila Braine, May Byron, Evelyn Everett-Green, George Manville Fenn, Lilian Gask, G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, D. H. Parry

About the author

Lucy L. Weedon, often listed as L. L. Weedon or Lucy L. Weedon (1862–1939), was a British writer and translator whose work was aimed mainly at children. Library and public-domain records show her connected with a wide range of story collections, religious books, and retellings, including The Children's Sunday Book, Bible Stories, The Golden Story Book, and Child Characters from Dickens.

Her books suggest a special talent for reshaping bigger or older material into something welcoming for younger readers. She also translated and adapted tales such as Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Hauff, and her name appears on novelty picture books and story anthologies published around the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Although detailed biographical information about her life is hard to confirm from easily available sources, her surviving bibliography gives a clear sense of her appeal: warm, instructive, imaginative writing created to introduce children to stories they could grow with.