"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.

Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard (1791-1820), was an English writer of children's fiction whose stories incorporated moral lessons aimed at older girls. She was recognized above all for The Blind Child, her first and most successful novel. Pinchard's children's books were "didactic", she admired the writers Barbauld and Genlis, who put education ahead of fantasy, and she aspired to emulate their work.