The Penurious Panic Pookie of Porth
April 14th, 2009 | by Squire | published in Fiction: Novel
(1894, One-With-A-Little-Light-On Press)
Long-overlooked by Chesleyan scholars, this modern fairy tale is arguably one of Chesley’s most influential works.
Chesley wrote this sometime in the spring and summer of 1894, while she was travelling in the UK with her uncle, the infamous cranial traumatist (and inventor) Michael Flannigan. Like her spectacularly unsuccessful BUNGYWASH FABLES, THE PENURIOUS PANIC [...]