The books are part parody of, and part homage to, Victorian literature. Other common threads are the motif of the wolves, the presence of awful nineteenth-century working conditions and a certain English barminess about the plots. Often the villains are Hanovarian conspirators, desperate to replace the incumbent James III with George Of Hanover. The twelve books feature a changing line-up of main protagonists, the most frequently recurring being cockney urchin action girl, Dido Twite, who have adventures in an alternate history of the nineteenth century. The series is generally referred to by the same name (that or the 'Wolves Chronicles').
The first written in a series of eccentric gothic adventure stories for children by Joan Aiken.
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