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y separately published work icon Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies single work   children's fiction   children's  
Alternative title: Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century; The Remarkables
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Winifred Weatherby is no ordinary nineteenth-century girl. She’s unconventional, plucky, and smart. In fact, she’s a girl-genius inventor on a mission to become an engineer, despite the fact that engineering is a Men-Only Zone in 1889.

'After being expelled from her progressive academy for promising young ladies, the incorrigible Winifred Weatherby is secretly recruited to be a gadget mistress for Queen Victoria’s league of young lady spies. While aiming to exhibit her Very Promising Invention at the 1889 Paris World Fair, Winnie must protect Queen Victoria from would-be plotters, find her missing father, and prove to the world that girls CAN be inventors and engineers.' (Source: Author's website)

Notes

  • An early manuscript version of Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies was titled 'Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century'. This manuscript won second place in the 2016 CYA Conference Competition.

    In late 2020, Stegert re-named the manuscript 'The Remarkables' and entered it in the Historical Novel Society of Australasia’s (HNSA) Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship Prize. The manuscript won the mentorship.

    Source: Author's website and the Historical Novel Society Australasia website.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Frome, Somerset,
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      Chicken House ,
      2023 .
      image of person or book cover 2339725120028486084.png
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 368p.
      Reprinted: 1 Mar 2024
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 3 August 2023
      ISBN: 9781915026095
Form: audiobook
    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      W. F. Howes ,
      2023 .
      Extent: 7 CDs; 7 hours and 47 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Released 12 October 2023
      ISBN: 9781004142262 :, 9781004142279 (MP3 CD)

Awards

2021 winner Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition (UK) The 2021 Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition was offered in conjunction with the UK's Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) to celebrate 'IET’s 150th anniversary, putting engineering and technology front and centre of children’s fiction, while helping to raise awareness of the industry and challenging outdated stereotypes' (Source: 'IET media release, 14 October 2021'.
2020 winner HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett Mentorship for Young Adult Historical Fiction as 'The Remarkables'.
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