Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Marianne North, Thomas Hill and Myles Birket Foster. A motherless family of brothers and sisters try to run their own household and discover how much they do not know. Yonge wrote for girls and did not soften the consequences of foolishness. This edition adds a gallery of 56 plates after painters including Marianne North, Edward Hicks and Arthur Hughes, alongside one restored and coloured illustration.