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Mrs. M. E. Bewsher
Best known for Victorian children's tales such as Catharine's Peril and The Little Ballet Girl, this writer built dramatic stories around danger, courage, and real-life feeling. Her books have the brisk, moral energy that made nineteenth-century family reading so popular.
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Catharine's peril : or, The little Russian girl lost in a forest; and other stories
by Mrs. M. E. Bewsher
About the author
Margaretta Eliza Bewsher was a British writer who published as Mrs. M. E. Bewsher. Research records her under the fuller name Margaretta Eliza Bewsher, and connect her with works including The Gipsy's Secret; or, Deb's Revenge, and What Came of It (1871), The Little Ballet Girl: Founded on Fact (1875), and Catharine's Peril; or, The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest.
Her fiction appears to have been aimed largely at younger readers, blending adventure with sentiment and a strong sense of peril overcome. Even the subtitles of her books suggest the appeal: stories "founded on fact," lost children, secrets, and narrow escapes.
Available reference material on her life is limited, but one reliable literary index notes that her husband died suddenly in 1878, that she later moved to Bromley, and that she died there on October 2, 1907. Because so little biographical detail is widely preserved, her books remain the clearest window into her work and reputation.