The Project Gutenberg eBook, Our Elizabeth, by Florence A. Kilpatrick, Illustrated by Ernest Forbes

Title: Our Elizabeth

A Humour Novel

Author: Florence A. Kilpatrick

Release Date: May 22, 2006 [eBook #18430]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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[Frontispiece: Elizabeth Renshaw.]

OUR ELIZABETH

A HUMOUR NOVEL

BY

FLORENCE A. KILPATRICK

ILLUSTRATED BY ERNEST FORBES

THORNTON BUTTERWORTH LIMITED

62 ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. 2

Published November 1920

TO CIS

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Elizabeth is not a type; she is an individuality. Signs and omens at her birth no doubt determined her sense of the superstitious; but I trace her evolution as a figure of fun to some sketches of mine in the pages of Punch. These, however, were only impressions of Elizabeth on a small scale, but I acknowledge the use of them here in the process of developing her to full life-size. Elizabeth, as I say, is a personality apart; there is only one Elizabeth. Here she is.

F. A. K.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Our Elizabeth . . . . . . Frontispiece

Henry and I looked at the Cookery Book

The Kid

A Bad Sign

Marion dropped fifteen stitches

Our Friend William

'Wot's 'orrible about it?'

'Oh, must I, Mama?'

''E was starin' at it wild-like.'

'Do you mean the boiler one?' I asked.

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