Project Gutenberg 2006-04-28 Public domain in the USA. 261 Molesworth, Mrs. 1839 1921 Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth Molesworth, Mary Louisa Stewart Graham, Ennis Crane, Walter 1845 1915 The Rectory Children Produced by Ted Garvin, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Rectory Children" by Mrs. Molesworth is a children's novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative introduces readers to the lives of young children from two families living in the charming seaside town of Seacove, focusing particularly on the Fairchild family, consisting of the delicate and imaginative Celestina Fairchild and her parents. The story unfolds around themes of childhood happiness, imaginative play, and exploration of new friendships. At the start of the novel, we meet Celestina, a solitary little girl longing for her mother's attention while she plays with her dolls in the dimly lit parlour behind her father's bookshop. We learn about her delicate health, her creative spirit, and her admiration for her mother, who juggles shop duties alongside her care for Celestina. The opening portion also hints at changes coming to Seacove with the arrival of the Vane family, who brings three children, including a lively girl named Bridget. As the narrative progresses from here, it captures the themes of companionship, imagination, and the adventures that unfold as the lives of these two families intertwine in their new setting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Friendship -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels Category: British Literature 294708 2025-06-08T03:52:30.319776 text/html 296579 2018-01-07T08:09:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 591010 2018-01-07T08:09:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 614795 2025-06-08T03:52:36.502699 application/epub+zip 617880 2025-06-08T03:52:31.666791 application/epub+zip 176856 2025-06-08T03:52:30.812774 application/epub+zip 679572 2025-06-08T03:52:39.971752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 646730 2025-06-08T03:52:35.624742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 249041 2022-09-08T15:38:42.727424 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 260073 2025-06-08T03:52:29.672782 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 259929 2018-01-07T08:09:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 96322 2018-01-07T08:09:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 259920 2018-01-07T08:09:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 96281 2018-01-07T08:09:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21230 2025-06-08T03:52:40.125673 application/rdf+xml 36457 2025-06-08T03:52:30.911775 image/jpeg 4465 2025-06-08T03:52:30.860758 image/jpeg 613133 2025-06-08T03:52:30.372741 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia