This book is feminist without even trying. There is a capable boy neighbour but the others are all girls. Mother's first name is Mary but she is called Polly in everyday use. Mother makes all the meals for the family and does all the washing.

Mangan, Lucy (15 February 2018). "My life as a bookworm: what children can teach us about how to read". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 February 2018. Frequently charming and really rather beautifully done, this 90th anniversary edition of the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories is a lovely thing. It's been a long time since I read Milly-Molly-Mandy and if you're the same, here's a brief refresher. Written in the 1920s, MMM is a little girl who lives with her sprawling family in a pleasant little village, and she gets into several very small and rather adorable adventures. They were written and illustrated by Joyce Lankester Brisley who was the sister of Nina K. Brisley who illustrated the Chalet School stories - and this is something that, in a nicely worded afterword, this edition told me and I made a proper 'I did not know that' face. The edition includes several of the short stories collected together and as mentioned has a lovely afterword that does something quite remarkable - it speaks to the child. It's not often you see an afterword that remembers the child audience as much as the adult, and Macmillan are to be commended for this. This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.a b "Original illustrations for Milly-Molly-Mandy Again , by Joyce Lankester Brisley, published by George G. Harrap, 1948 - Original illustrations - Joyce Lankester Brisley children's author: papers - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk . Retrieved 2022-03-24. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

The stories were originally published in the Christian Science Monitor, beginning in 1925. They were first published as a collection, Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories, in 1928. [2] Setting [ edit ]Joyce Lankester Brisley (6 February 1896 – 1978) was an English writer. She is most noted for writing and illustrating the Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which were first printed in 1925 by the Christian Science Monitor.