La mirada cáustica, maniática e inadvertidamente hilarante de una escritora victoriana de libros para niños, sobre los países del mundo y las costumbres de sus habitantes. Un libro original y divertido, que también hace pensar.
Victorian children’s writer Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer (born Favell Lee Bevan) was a woman of deep piety--and of even more profound prejudices. Born a Quaker in London in 1802, she converted to Evangelicalism at age 25 and devoted her life to the proper religious development of children, a task that involved extolling the virtues of Protestantism and denouncing as corrupt or evil every other form of faith and practice. ... Show more
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