So I didn’t expect this book to be what it was.  I knew it had been made into a movie back aways, with Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria (ahahaha!) and thought it was something along the lines of the Shirley Temple epic, The Little Princess, but it was definitely not that, and actually not at all a children’s book,. A definition first.  A mudlark was a child who earned his or her keep by scavenging through the “mud” on the banks of the Thames for […]