Daisy Ashford became famous by writing "The Young Guests, or Mr. Salteena's Plan." The author's childhood name ("Daisy" is a common shortening of "Margaret") reflects the time of writing, when she was nine years old. Despite the many rumors of a literary hoax, everything is true: she really existed, her full name was Margaret Mary Julia Ashford (later Devlin), and the dates of her life were from April 7, 1881 to January 15, 1972, and indeed independently, without With someone's help and advice, I wrote the entire text of the "novel". The manuscript is kept in the Berg collection of the New York Public Library. The first edition was published in 1919, with the author's spelling and punctuation preserved. "The Young Guests" began their triumphant journey. Not only that, endless reprints never left the bookstore shelves. Already in 1920, a play based on the novel, written by the same Margaret Mackenzie together with Mrs. Norman, was presented on the London (and then New York) stage. Well, they wrote it; critics noted that the play required only scissors and glue to create, or, as one reviewer elegantly put it, “Perhaps no novel has ever been so reverently converted into drama.” In 1968, a musical based on the book appeared, and in 2003, the BBC made a television film, Here Come the Guests! (“The Young Visiters”), with Jim Broadbent (Mr. Salteena), Lindsay Marshall (Ethel Monticue) and Hugh Laurie (Bernard Clark). Amateur translation - http://apropospage.ru/lib/deizy/dzy1.html