Lizzie Allen Harker (née Watson; 1863 – 14 April 1933) was an English author. Amongst her works are the play '' Marigold'' (with

Francis R. Pryor Francis Robert "Frank" Pryor (30 March 1862 – 4 December 1937) was an English playwright. Pryor was the youngest son of Robert Pryor of High Elms, Hertfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Caroline née Wyrley-Birch.Burke's Peerage. Pryor of Westo ...

), which was turned into a 1938 film '' Marigold''. It was also broadcast on 22 May 1943 as one of the first episodes of BBC Radio's long-running drama strand ''

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''.''Radio Times'', Issue 1024, 16 May 1943, p. 18
/ref> She was born in

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and educated at

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. She was the wife (married 1885), and later widow, of James Allen Harker (1847–1894), professor at the

Royal Agricultural College The Royal Agricultural University (RAU), formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world. ...

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. Their sons were Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968) and Brig. Arthur William Allen Harker CBE (1890–1960), and possibly more.

Works

* ''A Romance of the Nursery'' 1902 * ''Concerning Paul and Fiammetta'' 1906 * ''His First Leave'' * '' Miss Esperance and Mr Wycherly'' 1908 * ''Master and Maid'' * ''The Ffolliots of Redmarley'' * ''Mr Wycherly's Wards'' * ''Jan and her Job'' * ''Children of the Dear Cotswolds'' * ''Allegra'', 1919 * ''The Bridge Across'', 1921 * ''Her Proper Pride'' (with F.R. Pryor) * ''The Really Romantic Age'', 1922 * ''The Vagaries of Tod and Peter'', 1923 * ''The Broken Bow'', 1924 * ''Hilda Ware'', 1926 * '' Marigold'', with F.R. Pryor 1927 * ''Black Jack House'', 1929

References

External links

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Plays by Lizzie Allen Harker and F.R. Pryor on Great War Theatre
1863 births 1933 deaths 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers {{England-writer-stub