Bibliograph

A traveller in time, by Alison Uttley ; illustrated by Phyllis Bray

Type

Label

A traveller in time, by Alison Uttley ; illustrated by Phyllis Bray

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A traveller in time

Oclc number

643763938

Responsibility statement

by Alison Uttley ; illustrated by Phyllis Bray

Series statement

New York Review children's collection

Summary

When, in the late 1930s, Penelope is sent to stay with relatives in a remote ancient farmhouse in Derbyshire, she finds herself mysteriously transported to Elizabethan times where her sixteenth-century family is scheming to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, but, even with her twentieth-century knowledge, Penelope remains helpless in the face of danger

Table Of Contents

Thackers Farm -- I pass through the door -- The herb garden -- The book of hours -- Francis Babington -- Gossip in Thackers kitchen -- The queen's locket -- I ride to the fair -- The secret passage -- Mary Queen of Scots -- I revisit Wingfield -- Arabella -- The Marchpane Thackers -- The snow falls

Target audience

juvenile

Classification