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Rosemary Hayes
Rosemary Hayes (born 10 December 1942) is a British author who has written around 50 books for children aimed at ages from seven years to teenagers. She has edited many more. She worked for Cambridge University Press and then set up her own publishing house, Anglia Young Books. Early life and education Hayes was born and brought up in rural Berkshire. She read avidly as a child and was particularly influenced by the books of Elizabeth Goudge and the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Hayes attended Brightwalton Primary School from 1947-50 then St Gabriel’s, Sandleford Priory in Newbury. In 1970, she enrolled in a Creative Writing Course at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Career Hayes came to writing from a background in advertising, marketing and publishing. She worked intermittently for Cambridge University Press from 1986-2001 and one of her jobs was to run a national children’s writing competition, The Cambridge Young Writers’ Award, which attracted th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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People From Newbury, Berkshire
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British Women Writers
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1942 Births
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Jane Wilson-Howarth
Jane Wilson-Howarth CF, BSc (hons), MSc (Oxon), BM, DCH, DCCH, DFSRH, FRSTM&H, FFTM RCPS (Glasg) (born 1954) is a British physician, lecturer and author. She has written three travel health guides, two travel narratives, a novel and a series of wildlife adventures for children. She has also contributed to anthologies of travellers tales, has written innumerable articles for non-specialist readers, and many scientific/academic papers. Personal life Jane Wilson was born in Epsom Hospital, Surrey, as one of the three children of Peggy (Margaret) Thomas (1926–2015), from London, and a bibliophile, Joe Wilson (1920–2011), from Ballymena in Northern Ireland. She grew up in Stoneleigh, a suburb just north of Ewell Village. She is married to Simon Howarth and the couple live between East Anglia and Kathmandu. Education She attended Stoneleigh East County Infants, Junior and Senior Schools, and also Cheam High School, but was challenged by dyslexia. She left school at 16 to stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Watson Author
Victor Watson (born 1936) is an English author who has written on the nature and history of children's literature and on how children learn to read. He later turned to writing novels for children, young adults and adults. Early life Watson was born and brought up in Littleport in the Isle of Ely (now part of Cambridgeshire). His father, George Watson, was a printer and stationer, and his mother, née Emily Manning, one of a large family of fairground travellers. His mother ran the family stationer's and bookshop while his father served in the Second World War. Education Watson attended the County Primary School at Littleport, Cambridgeshire and Soham Grammar School. After national service in the Royal Artillery, he read English at University College, London, and followed that with a master's degree, while employed as a research assistant to Professor J. R. Sutherland. Career From 1962 until 1969 he taught English at Sherrardswood School, a private primary and secondary institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Corzine
Amy Corzine is an American-born fiction and non-fiction writer and poet. Her first book was a Cadogan travel guide to Ireland for families in which she included stories she wrote based on Irish folktales. After that, Watkins Publishing commissioned her for 'The Secret Life of the Universe: The Quest for the Soul of Science'. Early life and education Mythology, fairy tales, music, and poetry fascinated Amy Corzine from the beginning and she spent much of her youth writing poems and playlets and working in local theatre. She completed a BA in English Literature from The University of Texas at Austin and an MA in Creative Writing from Antioch University's British Studies Centre in London, which included study at University College Dublin's Irish Folklore Department and Yeats Summer School in Ireland. She attended the Waldorf Institute for Teacher Training in New York and the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Career Early in her working life in the US, she began wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letchworth
Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 33,249. Letchworth was an ancient parish, appearing in the Domesday Book of 1086. It remained a small rural village until the start of the twentieth century. The development of the modern town began in 1903, when much of the land in Letchworth and the neighbouring parishes of Willian and Norton was purchased by a company called First Garden City Limited, founded by Ebenezer Howard and his supporters with the aim of building the first "garden city", following the principles Howard had set out in his 1898 book, ''To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform''. Their aim was to create a new type of settlement which provided jobs, services, and good housing for residents, whilst retaining the environmental quality of the countryside, in contrast to most industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berkshire in 1957 because of the presence of Windsor Castle, and letters patent were issued in 1974. Berkshire is a county of historic origin, a ceremonial county and a non-metropolitan county without a county council. The county town is Reading. The River Thames formed the historic northern boundary, from Buscot in the west to Old Windsor in the east. The historic county, therefore, includes territory that is now administered by the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire in Oxfordshire, but excludes Caversham, Slough and five less populous settlements in the east of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. All the changes mentioned, apart from the change to Caversham, took place in 1974. The towns of Abingdon, Didcot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Fidler
Kathleen Fidler (Kathleen Annie Fidler Goldie) (10 August 1899 - 7 August 1980) was a prolific author of over 80 children's books. Kathleen Annie Fidler was born on 10 August 1899 in Coalville, Leicestershire. She was raised in Wigan and educated in Wigan Girls' High School and at St. Mary's College in Bangor North Wales. She became a teacher and taught at St. Paul's Girls' School, Wigan, and was the headmistress of the Scot Lane Evening Institure between 1924 and 1930. She married James H. Goldie in 1930 and moved to Edinburgh shortly afterwards, where she began writing stories for her children. She finally settled in Wester Riggs, a large house in Broomieknowe, a secluded road in Lasswade, Midlothian. There her husband became the manager of a local branch of the Bank of Scotland. They had a daughter, Nancy, and a son, Hamish. During the course of her career, she wrote over 80 novels and non-fiction books for children, many of her novels following the adventures of two familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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