"Mystery and Confidence" in is one of the best-known novels by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard. Elizabeth was an English writer of coming of age tales and children's books whose stories incorporat moral lessons particularly aimed at young girls. She always tried to put the education ahead of fantasy, to incompase advice and moral procipals based on her own experience - for the next generation. Her goals are to be admired to and her stories remain extraordinary guidance through fiction and adventure until this day.