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Like Most Other Children, Who Should Be My Godfather Is Decided By Mammon--So Precocious As To Make Some Noise In The World And Be Hung A Few Days After I Was Born--Cut Down In Time And Produce A Scene Of Bloodshed--My Early Propensities Fully Developed By The Choice Of My Profession Those Who May Be Pleased To Honour These Pages With A Perusal, Will Not Be Detained With A Long Introductory History Of My Birth, Parentage, And Education. The Very Title Implies That, At This Period Of My Memoirs,
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Amethyst Rosewood is a young girl fresh out of primary school just trying to live her life. But when a friendly person shows up at her door and gives her a letter, her life changes in ways she never thought possible. A new student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she has seven years of fun and unimaginable trials ahead of her. What will she face in her first year?
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William Gordon Stables MD, CM. RN (21 May 1840 – 10 May 1910) was a Scottish-born medical doctor in the Royal Navy and a prolific author of adventure fiction, primarily for boys.William Gordon Stables was born in Aberchirder, in Banffshire (now part of Aberdeenshire). After studying medicine at the University of Aberdeen, he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He came ashore in 1875, and settled in Twyford, Berkshire, in England.