Gladys in Grammarland

Gladys in Grammarland is a novel by Audrey Mayhew Allen, written c. 1897 and published by the Roxburghe Press of Westminster.

In this story, Gladys becomes sleepy after class and finds that a Verb Fairy has taken an interest in her education.

She is taken, through a cardboard door with "English Grammar" written on it, into Grammarland, where she meets with a great many Verbs, who explain the concepts of transitivity and intransitivity to her.

[1] Audrey Mayhew Allen was born in 1870, and so was about 27 years of age when she wrote Gladys in Grammarland.

She was the granddaughter of Henry Mayhew, one of the two founders (1841) of the satirical and humorous magazine Punch, and of Douglas William Jerrold, a dramatist and writer.

2010 edition cover of Gladys in Grammarland