page_title: Dorothy Kilner
hierarchical_section_title: Dorothy Kilner
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page and frontispiece of "Life and Preambulation of a Mouse" vol.2
context_page_description: Dorothy Kilner was an English writer of children's books during the late 18th century.
  Dorothy published her first books anonymously. She then published under the pseudonyms M. P. and Mary Pelham. This was common practice among female authors in that period.
  Dorothy's most famous book was The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse. This was published in 1784. Some other books of hers are Anecdotes of a Boarding School, or an antidote to the vices of those Establishments, Little Stories for Little Folks, and The Village School. Most of her stories had moral lessons.
context_section_description: Dorothy Kilner (17 February 1755 – 5 February 1836) was an English writer of children's books during the late 18th century.
  Dorothy published her first books anonymously. She then published under the pseudonyms M. P. and Mary Pelham. This was common practice among female authors in that period.
  Dorothy's most famous book was The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse. This was published in 1784. Some other books of hers are Anecdotes of a Boarding School, or an antidote to the vices of those Establishments (1790), Little Stories for Little Folks (about 1785), and The Village School (1795). Most of her stories had moral lessons.
caption: Title page and frontispiece of The Life and Preambulation of a Mouse, volume 2
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