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'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
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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.
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
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and technology front and centre of children’s fiction, while helping to raise awareness of the industry and challenging outdated stereotypes' (Source: 'IET media release, 14 October 2021'.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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