Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary, by Anne ManningThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Mary Powell & Deborah's DiaryAuthor: Anne ManningRelease Date: May 14, 2007 [EBook #21431]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARY POWELL & DEBORAH'S DIARY ***Produced by Al HainesMary Powell & Deborah's DiarybyAnne Manning A tale which holdeth children from play & old men from the chimney corner —Sir Philip SidneyLondon: published by J. M. Dent & Co.and in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co.1908INTRODUCTIONIn the Valhalla of English literature Anne Manning is sure of a little and safe place. Her studies of great men, in whichher imagination fills in the hiatus which history has left, are not only literature in themselves, but they are a service toliterature: it is quite conceivable that the ordinary reader with no very keen flair for poetry will realise John Milton andappraise him more highly, having read Mary Powell and its sequel, Deborah's Diary, than having read ParadiseLost. In The Household of Sir Thomas More she had for hero one of the most charming, whimsical, lovable, heroicalmen God ever created, by the creation of whose like He puts to shame all that men may accomplish in their ...