Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880). She lived for an early part of her marriage in Tabley Grange, outside Knutsford in Cheshire, rented from George, 2nd Lord de Tabley. Molesworth, nephew of Viscount Molesworth they legally separated in 1879. She was educated in Great Britain and Switzerland: much of her girlhood was spent in Manchester. She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart (1809–1873) who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson (1810–1883). Her name occasionally appears in print as M. Her first novels, for adult readers, Lover and Husband (1869) to Cicely (1874), appeared under the pseudonym of Ennis Graham. Mary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart ( – 20 January 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth.
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