Jessamy
by Barbara Sleigh
Visiting with the caretaker of an empty old mansion, orphaned Jessamy emerges from the
nursery closet into the world of 1914 when her namesake lived in the same house and left
her adventures and a mystery to be solved again in the present.
— from publicity material
Somehow I’ve become another Jessamy in a different time! It must be a different time
because of the clothes. Nobody wears long skirts like Matchett and Aunt now—I mean
that—oh, I don’t know what I mean!
Jessamy by Barbara Sleigh (Bobbs-Merrill,
1967).