The Doll and Her Friends: or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina

Julia Charlotte Maitland, was a writer and traveller, and the great-niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney. Julia Maitland’s first publication of note was her Letters from Madras, during the years 1836-1839, by a Lady published anonymously in 1843. Later, Julia Maitland wrote three books for children, all of them popular in their day: Historical Acting Charades (1847), The Doll and her Friends, or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina (1852), and Cat and Dog, or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain (1854).