page_title: Caroline Birley
section_title: Children's author
hierarchical_section_title: Caroline Birley / Children's author
caption_attribution_description: English: Book cover - originally published in 1887
context_page_description: Caroline Birley was an English geologist, fossil collector and children's author. As a geologist, she was noteworthy, not so much for the scientific value of her collection, but for the regard with which she was held in a predominately male profession. Her interest in geology started with stones she collected as a child and her enthusiasm continued until her death.
context_section_description: She wrote several books for children, many of which were published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. Her books include:
  We are Seven (1879)
  A Heap of Stones (1881)
  Undine; a Romance of Modern Days; and Other Stories (1883)
  Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be? A Tale of Churchill Wakes (1883)
  Eyes to the Blind: A tale (1886)
  Gerald's Rescue (1886)
  Jessamine and her Lesson Books, and How She Missed the Gipsey Tea (1887)
  The Linen Room Window, or "What snow conceals, the sun reveals" (1898)
  She also contributed to two volumes of short stories:
  My Birthday Present:  A Series of Original Birthday Stories for Boys and Girls from Six to Twelve Years of Age (1886) Contributors:Sabine Baring-Gould, Caroline Birley, Helen Wilmot-Buxton, Ethel M. Wilmot-Buxton, Frances Charlton and Frances Clare.
  Jack Frost's Little Prisoners: A collection of stories for children from four to twelve years of age (1887) Contributors:   Stella Austin, Sabine Baring-Gould, Caroline Birley, Lord Brabourne (E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen), Lucy Fletcher-Massey, Mrs. Molesworth, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Ethel M. Wilmot-Buxton and Charlotte Mary Yonge. Caroline Birley's contribution was A Christmas Wheatsheaf.
caption: Jack Frost's Little Prisoners (1887)
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