1903. Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. The book begins: The month was September and the place was in the neighborhood of Bridgetown, in the island of Barbados. The seventeenth century was not seventeen years old, but the girl who walked slowly down to the riverbank was three years its senior. She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.