Leila at Home

Leila at Home is juvenile fiction novel written by Ann Fraser Tytler and it is sequel to the previous works The Island, and Leila in England. In the preface of this novel the author says "IT was the intention of the writer of the following pages to have bid a

last farewell to Leila, but some of her young readers have said “No;”

and she feels too grateful for the kindness they have shown her, not to

make the attempt to meet their wishes. Circumstances have so long

prevented her fulfilling this intention, that it may be necessary to

remind them that they took leave of Leila when she had just set off for

Woodlands, (near Richmond,) a property Mr. Howard had purchased near the

residence of her uncle, Mr. Stanley; that Leila was in all the joy of

her cousin, Selina Stanley, having recovered her speech; that Selina’s

sister, Matilda, was continuing to make many good resolutions, and too

often to break them again; and that their brother, little Alfred, was

little Alfred still, and not over wise".