author
M. B. Manwell
Remembered today through a handful of late 19th- and early 20th-century children's books, this writer left behind stories for boys and girls with a strongly moral, family-centered feel. The surviving record is thin, which gives the work an old-library air of mystery.
2 Audiobooks
A Big Temptation
by L. T. Meade, Maggie Browne, M. B. Manwell
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys
by M. B. Manwell
About the author
M. B. Manwell appears to have been a writer of children's fiction active in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Catalog records and book listings connect the name with titles including Tony's Neighbour (1892), Gerty's Triumph (1894), Mother's Boy (1895), The Waif of Bounders' Rents (1898), A Big Temptation, and Other Stories (1900, as a contributor), The Girls of Dancy Dene (1902/1903), and The Girls of St. Ursula's (1910/1912).
The books linked to Manwell suggest a range that included stories for boys, school and family stories for girls, and fiction with clearly ethical or Christian themes. Several later reprints and rare-book listings show that these works continued to circulate long after their first publication, especially among readers interested in vintage juvenile fiction.
Reliable biographical details about the person behind the name are hard to confirm from readily available sources, so it is best to treat M. B. Manwell as a somewhat obscure figure whose reputation rests mainly on the books themselves rather than on a well-documented life story.