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see SPENCER, JILL
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TALBOT,
ETHEL M[ARY]. (26 May 1880 – 26 May 1944)
1910s – 1940s
One of the major authors
of girls' school stories, who published more than 100 titles in all. Sims and
Clare consider them notable for their emotional intensity, though they also
report that most readers either love her books or hate them. Titles include The School on the Moor (1919), The New Girl at the Priory (1923), The Bravest Girl in the School (1924),
Patricia, Prefect (1925), The School at None-Go-By (1926), Jan at Island School (1927), The Half-and-Half Schoolgirl (1928), The Foolish Phillimores (1931), The Mascot of the School (1934), Diana the Daring (1938), and The Warringtons in War-TIme (1940).
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TALBOT,
LAURA (12 Sept 1907 – 26 Aug 1966)
(pseudonym of Ursula
Winifred Stewart Chetwynd-Talbot, married names Stewart, Hamilton, and James)
1950s – 1960s
Author of five novels, most notably The Gentlewomen (1952), set during the
war and reprinted by Virago in the 1980s. The other four are Prairial (1950), Barcelona Road (1953), The
Elopement (1958), and The Last of
the Tenants (1961). On the 1939 England & Wales Register, it appears
that the family home of the Chetwynd-Talbots, Ingestre Hall, is being
operated as a hospital, presumably in preparation for the war. She is already
widowed from her first marriage, and her occupation is given as
"florist". Her third marriage was to novelist Patrick Hamilton. Tragically,
she and her fourth husband were killed in a plane crash after only two years
of marriage.
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TALLENTYRE,
S. G. (28 Sept 1868 – 13 Apr 1956)
(pseudonym
of Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
1910s
Biographer
of Voltaire and author of at least three novels—Early-Victorian (1910), about village life, Matthew Hargraves (1914), and Love
Laughs Last (1919). Oddly, the British Library says the "S"
stands for Stephen and gives "his" life dates as "1868-1919".
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Tate, Ellalice
see HIBBERT, ELEANOR
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Taylor, Alison
see ROBERTSON, MIMA (JEMIMA)
[SIMPSON TAYLOR]
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TAYLOR,
DORIS (dates unknown)
1940s – 1960s
Author of religious books
and four works for children, including two girls' school stories, Victory for Vera (1955) and The Girl from India (1961), as well as
The Magic Plane (1947) and Life-Saver Lyn (1954).
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TAYLOR,
ELIZABETH (3 Jul 1912 – 19 Nov 1975)
(née Coles)
1940s – 1970s
Certainly the only writer
on this list whose career was hindered by sharing a name with a film star,
Taylor remained underrated, despite critical acclaim, until Virago's staunch
advocacy of her work since the 1980s. She published twelve novels, four story
collections, and a children's book. Her debut, At Mrs. Lippincote's (1945), is a powerful novel of late World
War II tensions and fatigue, and her third, A View of the Harbour (1947), is set in the immediate aftermath. A Game of Hide-and-Seek (1951), one of
her most acclaimed works, packs a diverse cast of character into a tale of
star-crossed lovers. Mrs. Palfrey at
the Claremont (1971), set in a hotel for the elderly in Kensington, was
made into a film starring Joan Plowright in 2005, while Angel (1957), about an author of romantic novels who is
disappointed when real life doesn't live up to them, was filmed by François
Ozon in 2007. Her other novels are Palladian
(1946), A Wreath of Roses (1949), The Sleeping Beauty (1953), In a Summer Season (1961), The Soul of Kindness (1964), The Wedding Group (1968), and Blaming (1976). Virago released her Collected Stories in 2012, which
includes all four of her story collections as well as previously uncollected
and unpublished stories. She also published one children's title, Mossy Trotter (1967), which I reviewed
here. Nicola Beauman, founder
of Persephone, published a biography called The Other Elizabeth Taylor (2009). One of Taylor's closest
literary friends was Ivy COMPTON-BURNETT.
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TAYLOR, ELLA M. (dates unknown)
1930s
Untraced author of two romances—Her Dangerous Freedom (1930) and Tangled Lives (1934).
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TAYLOR, GAY
(27 Sept 1896 – 29 Nov 1970)
(full name, Ethelwynne
Stewart Taylor, née McDowall, aka Loran Hurnscot, aka Ethel Firebrace [with
Malachi WHITAKER])
1930s
Co-founder, with husband
Harold Midgeley Taylor, of the Golden Cockerel Press and author or co-author
of three books. The first, an autobiographical novel called No Goodness in the Worm (1930), based
on Taylor's unsatisfying marriage and her tormented relationship with author
A. E. Coppard, received wildly varying reviews. A few years later, she
collaborated with close friend Malachi WHITAKER on the humorous satire, The Autobiography of Ethel Firebrace
(1937), from the point of view of a bestselling novelist of high sensibility
and healthy ego. Her final book, A
Prison, A Paradise (1958), published under her Loran Hurnscot pseudonym,
is a diary (with names changed) revisiting her relationship with Coppard and
her subsequent spiritual revelations. Elisabeth Russell Taylor wrote about
her interest in Taylor, and particularly about A Prison, A Paradise, here. Neglected Books has also
discussed all three of Taylor's books (see here).
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TAYLOR, GERTRUDE WINIFRED (1880 – 13 Apr 1948)
1910s
Author of two early novels with D. K. BROSTER—Chantemerle (1911) and The Vision Splendid (1913)—and one
later novel of her own, The Pearl
(1918), discussed in Anna Bogen's Women's
University Fiction, 1880–1945. Her other works appear to be plays. One
other short book, The Ruminations of Ruffles (1922), could be fiction
as well.
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TAYLOR,
[EDITH] MARJORIE (1912 – 8 Dec 1938)
1930s
Author of three girls'
Guide stories, all set in Scotland with Scottish heroines, including With the Speedwell Patrol (1938), Prior's Island (1940), and The Highland School (1940), the last
with a backdrop of school. The cause of her tragically early death is not yet
known.
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TAYLOR, SUSAN (13 Mar 1905 – 25 Dec 1990)
(pseudonym of Kathleen Phyllis Taylor Collier,
married name Mackenzie)
1930s – 1950s
Sister of Ann DEERING and author of 10 Mills &
Boon romances. Titles are Love Is a
Dream (1938), Sweetest Folly
(1939), Mists Around the Moon
(1940), Rose for Spain (1947), Spring Comes Again (1948), Dear Pretender (1949), Dreaming Bride (1950), Come Back to Me (1951), Sweet Unrest (1952), and The Happy Moment (1952).
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Taylor, Viola
see GARVIN, MRS J. L.
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Tempest, Jan
see SWATRIDGE, IRENE MAUDE
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Tempest, Sarah
see PONSONBY, DORIS ALMON
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TEMPLE, MARION (dates unknown)
1930s
Unidentified author of a single novel, Fresh Furrows (1935). A publisher's
blurb says, "In her study of a 'dual' personality, Marion Temple has
achieved a first novel remarkable for the maturity of its style and for the
depth of its character. The story of the girl coming to England to make a 'good
match' and who found herself devoid of love for her husband has both tragedy
and happiness." If she, like her heroine, came to England to marry,
perhaps she doesn't belong on this list at all?
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TEMPLE, [GERTRUDE] PEGGY (MARGARET) (5 Dec 1913 – Jun
2001)
(married name Archer)
1920s
A child author following in the footsteps of Daisy
Ashford, Temple published a humorous novel, The Admiral and Others (1926), at age twelve, which Bookman called "one of those
fresh, unaffectedly humorous books that certainly add to the gaiety of the
world."
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TEMPLE,
URSULA (26 May 1861 – 13 Apr 1943)
(pseudonym of Elizabeth
[nicknamed Bessie] Ursula Joyce)
1900s – 1910s
Author of one girls'
school story which just barely fits the date range of this list—Form IIIB (1910)—and three earlier
titles, Through Strange Paths
(1903), The Squire's Will (1907),
and When Mother Was in India
(1907).
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TENISON, EVA
MABEL (31 May 1880 – 10 Aug 1961)
1920s
Historian, biographer, and
author of at least three novels—The
Valiant Heart (1920), Alastair
Gordon, R.N. (1921), and The
Undiscovered Island (1924), the last set in France during WWI.
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Tennant,
Catherine
see EYLES, KATHLEEN MURIEL
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TERRELL, DOROTHY À BECKETT (10 Mar 1879 – 18 Jan
1949)
(pseudonym of Dorothy Margaret Elisa Terrell [à
Beckett is her father's middle name], married name James)
1910s – 1920s
Author of five romantic novels—Sister-in-Chief (1912), which won a £250 prize for girls'
stories, Emancipation: The Story of a
Girl Who Wanted a Career (1914), Oh,
Mary! (1920), Last Year's Nest
(1924), and Common of Angels
(1926).
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Terrington, Rena
see WOODHOUSE, RENA
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TEY,
JOSEPHINE (25 Jul
1896 – 13 Feb 1952)
(pseudonym of Elizabeth
MacKintosh, aka Gordon Daviot)
1920s – 1950s
Novelist, playwright, and
mystery writer, known particularly for one of the most famous of all Golden
Age mystery novels, The Daughter of
Time (1951), in which her series detective, Inspector Alan Grant, while
bedridden with an injury, "solves" the mystery of Richard III and
the Princes in the Tower. Miss Pym
Disposes (1946), set at a girls' physical education school, features a
former teacher, now the author of a bestseller about psychology, who must
track a murderer. Alan Grant also features in The Man in the Queue (1929), A
Shilling for Candles (1936), which was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into
the film Young and Innocent, To Love and Be Wise (1950), and The Singing Sands (1952), and he
appears as a supporting character in The
Franchise Affair (1948). Tey's other novels are Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929), The Expensive Halo (1931), Brat
Farrar (1949), and The Privateer
(1952). I wrote briefly about Brat
Farrar here. She was also a
successful playwright, most notably with Richard
of Bordeaux (1932). There's an informative site about her and her work here.
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THIRKELL,
ANGELA [MARGARET] (30 Jan 1890 – 29 Jan 1961)
(née Mackail, later
married name McInnes)
1930s – 1960s
Author of
more than 30 novels, most of them part of her popular Barsetshire Chronicles,
interwoven novels set in the fictional county originally created by Anthony
Trollope. The series begins with High Rising (1933), and some of
her fans' favorites include Pomfret
Towers (1938), The Brandons
(1939), Cheerfulness Breaks In (1940), Northbridge Rectory
(1941), and Peace Breaks Out
(1946). The series continued until Three
Score and Ten (1961), which was finished by C. A. Lejeune following
Thirkell's death. Her popularity began to wane in the 1950s as her politics
became more conservative and more explicitly detailed in her books. She
published a handful of non-Barsetshire novels, including the early comedy Ankle Deep (1931), Trooper to the Southern Cross (1934),
a semi-autobiographical novel about her trip to Australia, and O These Men, These Men! (1935), about
an abusive marriage, but she soon realized that Barsetshire was her forte. In
reading the Barsetshire novels, pay particular attention to the character of
Laura Morland, a ditzy writer of silly mysteries, who is Thirkell's
caricaturish alter-ego.
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THOMASSET, M[ARJORIE]. P[HYLLIS]. (30 Dec 1879 – 10
Nov 1965)
(née Stringer)
1920s
Mother of Katharine SIM and author of four novels—The Fairy Spectacles (1920), Princess Crystal (1920), Gentleman—Unafraid (1921), and Joseph & M.O. (1927).
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THOMPSON,
FLORA [JANE] (5 Dec 1876 – 21 May 1947)
(née Timms)
1940s
Author of five novels, most famously the trilogy
known as Lark Rise to Candleford,
comprised of Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford
(1941), and Candleford Green (1943). These were lightly fictionalized
tales of Thompson's own youth, set in turn-of-the-century Oxfordshire and
popularly dramatized for television. According to her ODNB entry, "Few works better or more elegantly capture the
decay of Victorian agrarian England." Heatherley, a sort of sequel making use of Thompson's time as a
postal clerk in Grayshott, Hampshire (during which time her customers
included the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle), was
written in 1944 but not published until 1979. One additional novel, Still Glides the Stream (1948), was
published posthumously.
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THOMPSON,
SYLVIA [ELIZABETH] (4 Sept 1902 – 27 Apr 1968)
(married name Luling)
1920s – 1950s
Author of more than a dozen novels, best known for her third, The Hounds of Spring (1926), about the
repercussions of World War I. The war is also a backdrop in The Rough Crossing (1921), and Chariot Wheels (1929). Others include Battle of the Horizons (1928) Winter Comedy (1931), Breakfast in Bed (1934), Third Act in Venice (1936), The Gulls Fly Inland (1941), The People Opposite (1948), and The Candle's Glory (1953).
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Thomson, China
see BRAND, CHRISTIANNA
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THOMSON,
CHRISTINE [MARY] CAMPBELL (31 May 1897 – 29 Sept 1985)
(married names Cook and
Hartley, aka Flavia Richardson)
1920s – 1930s
Best known for popular anthologies of horror fiction
in the 1920s and 1930s, beginning with Not
at Night (1925), which often included her own stories under her
pseudonym. Thomson also published at least half a dozen novels, including Bourgoyne of Goyce (1921), The Noble Army (1921), The Incredible Island (1924), In a Far Corner (1926), His Excellency (1927), Port of Call (1936), and Hawk of the Sahara (1939).
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THORBURN,
MARJORIE [CLARA] (14 Jul 1898 – 14 Oct 1987)
(née Burford)
1930s
Author of a single
children's title, Edward and Marigold
(1933). Her other two published works were Child at Play (1937), apparently based on her observations of her
own child, and The Spirit of the Child:
A Study of the Moral and Spiritual Development of Small Children (1946).
She is described in one source as an educator, but little else is known.
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THORNBER,
LEON (27 Apr 1890 – 5 Jan 1963)
(sometimes Leonora,
pseudonym of Emmeline Mary Thornber, née Sherwood)
1930s
Author of three novels—Bitter Glory (1935), about Chopin, And One Man (1936), and Portrait in Steel (1938)—discussed in
some depth by her granddaughter here.
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Thorne, Mary
see PEARSON, MOLLIE (MARY)
SUSAN SEYMOUR
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THORP, MOLLY
(dates unknown)
1950s
Unidentified author, with
Nora LAVRIN, of a single children's novel, The Hop Dog (1952), which was later filmed as Adventure in the Hopfields (1954).
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THORPE,
SYLVIA (1926 - )
(pseudonym of June Sylvia
Thimblethorpe)
1950s – 1980s
Author of nearly 30
historical romances with settings in Regency, Georgian and other periods.
Titles include Beggar on Horseback
(1953), Rogues' Covenant (1957), The Highwayman (1962), Fair Shine the Day (1964), and The Scarlet Domino (1970).
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THURBURN, ROSE (ROSEMARY) [MINNA ROBINSON] (13 Jan
1906 – 13 Sept 1993)
(married names Congreve and Hilleary)
1950s
Author of four novels. Of The Colour of the Glass (1953), a review says, "Sensitivity,
intelligence, and the fresh revealing phrase mark this story of two fine,
mature people who fall in love." The others are The Wilderness Is Yours (1950), The Pulling Stones (1959), and Alien's Sunshine (1959).
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THURSTON, KATHERINE CECIL (18 Apr 1875 – 5 Sept
1911)
(née Madden)
1900s
Author of six novels in rather sensational "new
woman" style, including The Circle
(1903), The Gambler (1905), John Chilcote, M.P. (1905), The Mystics (1907), The Fly on the Wheel (1908, reprinted
by Virago), and Max (1910).
Thurston died tragically young, officially as a result of a seizure, but ODNB suggests the possibility of
suicide.
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THYNNE, MOLLY (MARY) [HARRIET] (1881 – 10 May 1950)
1920s – 1930s
Author of six mystery novels, including The Red Dwarf (1928), The Murder on the "Enriqueta"
(1929), The Case of Sir Adam Braid
(1930), The Crime at the "Noah's
Ark" (1931), Murder in the
Dentist's Chair (1932), and He Dies
and Makes No Sign (1933), as well as one earlier novel, The Uncertain Glory (1914), about a
young artist in Munich and London. American artist James McNeill Whistler was
her great uncle on her mother's side. Thynne's books have now been reprinted
by Dean Street Press.
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TIBBITS,
ANNIE O[LIVE]. (1871 - 1935)
(née Brazier)
1910s – 1920s
Author of
fourteen "sixpenny" novels, including Marquess Splendid (1910), Love
Without Pity (1915), Broken Fetters:
A Thrilling Story of Factory and Stage Life (1917), The Grey Castle Mystery (1919), Paid in Full (1920), and Under
Suspicion (1921).
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TIBBLE, ANNE NORTHGRAVE (29 Jan 1912 – 31 Aug 1980)
1920s
Best known for her three volumes of memoirs—Greenhorn: A Twentieth Century Childhood
(1973), One Woman's Story (1976),
and Alone (1979)—Tibble also
published a novel, The Apple Reddens
(1924), set in Yorkshire, and collaborated with her husband on a biography of
John Clare. She also edited African-English
Literature: A Short Survey and Anthology of Prose and Poetry up to 1965
(1965).
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TIDDEMAN,
L[IZZIE]. E[LLEN]. (1849 – 28 May 1937)
1880s – 1930s
Author of more than 70
volumes of fiction, mostly for children. Titles include Toddy (1888), A Humble
Heroine (1895), A Fairy Grandmother
(1897), Patience and Her Knight, and
Ted (1902), The Adventures of
Jasmin (1910), True to Her Colours
(1917), Quicksands! (1924), and Ralph Does His Best (1931).
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TILLYARD,
AELFRIDA [CATHERINE WETENHALL] (5 Oct 1883 – 12 Dec 1959)
(married name Michaelides)
1920s – 1930s
Poet, "mystic",
and author of five novels, including two dystopian fantasies, Concrete: A Story of Two
Hundred Years Hence (1930)
and The Approaching Storm (1932).
The others are The Young Milliner
(1929), The Way We Grow Up (1929),
and Haste to the Wedding (1931).
According to information about her archive at Cambridge, she wrote additional
novels in the 1940s and 1950s, which remain unpublished.
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TIMPERLEY,
ROSEMARY [KENYON] (20 Mar 1920 – 9 Nov 1988)
(married name Cameron)
1950s – 1980s
Author of more than 60
volumes of fiction, including ghost
stories, romance, mysteries, and adventure. Titles incude A Dread of Burning (1956), Yesterday's Voices (1961), Devil's Paradise (1965), My Room in Rome (1968), The Long Black Dress (1972), The Nameless One (1977), Justin and the Witch (1979), Night Talk (1982), and Inside (1988).
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TINDALL,
GILLIAN [ELIZABETH] (4 May 1938 -
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(married name Lansdown)
1950s – 1990s
Daughter of Ursula ORANGE,
whom she discusses in Footprints in
Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives (2009), and niece of Monica TINDALL.
Author of a dozen novels before turning in recent years to non-fiction
centered on the study of place and particularly on urban history. Novels
include No Name in the Street
(1959, aka When We Had Other Names),
The Water and the Sound (1961), The Youngest (1967), Fly Away Home (1971), The Intruder (1979), Looking Forward (1983), and Spirit Weddings (1992). Her
non-fiction includes The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village
(1977), Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of
Place to Writers (1991), Célestine: Voices From a French Village (1995), Three Houses, Many Lives (2012),
and most recently The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London
Journey (2016), about the building of London's Crossrail Tube line.
She has also published two biographies, The Born Exile: George Gissing (1974)
and The Man Who Drew London
(2002), about engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, as well as a critical work about
Rosamond LEHMANN (1985).
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TINDALL, MONICA [MCLEAN] (1907 - 1999)
(married name Campbell)
1940s
Sister-in-law of Ursula ORANGE and aunt of Gillian
TINDALL. Author of a single novel, The
Late Mrs. Prioleau (1946), which I enthusiastically reviewed here
and which has now been reprinted as a Furrowed Middlebrow book by Dean Street
Press.
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Tinker, Beamish
see JESSE, F. TENNYSON
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TIPPETT,
MRS. HENRY (6 Sept 1880 - 1969)
(pseudonym of Isabel
Clementine Binny Tippett, née Kemp, aka Mrs. Isabel C. Tippett)
1900s – 1920s
Suffragist, nurse, and
mother of composer Sir Michael Tippett. Author of eight New Woman and
"marriage problem" novels—Flower
of the World (1908), The Purple
Butterfly (1910), The Power of the
Petticoat (1911), The Waster
(1912), Green Girl (1913), Life-Force (1915), Living Dust (1922), and Honey and Fish (1923). On the 1881
census, her family home address is given as "Pudding Lane Burnt
House".
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TOBIAS, LILY
(15 May 1887 – 30 Apr 1984)
(née Shepherd)
1920s – 1930s
Born in Wales to Jewish
immigrant parents, Tobias is best known for Eunice Fleet (1933), about conscientious objectors in World War
I. Her other novels are My Mother's
House (1931), Tube (1935), and The Samaritan (1939, subtitled
"An Anglo-Palestinian Novel"). She published one story collection, The Nationalists and Other Goluth Studies
(1921). In recent years, Eunice Fleet
and My Mother's House have been
reprinted by Honno Press. Born and raised in Wales, she moved to Palestine in
the 1930s, where she lived until her death. A biography—The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily
Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine—appeared in 2015
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TODD,
BARBARA EUPHAN (9 Jan 1890 – 2 Feb 1976)
(married name Bower, aka
Barbara Euphan)
1930s – 1960s
Playwright, poet, novelist and children's writer. Best known
for her ten children's books featuring Worzel Gummidge, a talking scarecrow. ODNB notes, about that series:
"Clear sensory evocation of country scenes provides background for the
adventures of John and Susan, visiting city children privy to a lively
community of scarecrows unknown to the adult world." Todd also published
a single adult novel, Miss Ranskill
Comes Home (1946, reprinted by Persephone), a World War II comedy about a
woman, stranded on an island since before the war, who is finally rescued and
must adapt to wartime life. Todd collaborated on two more novels with her
husband, John Graham Bower—The
Touchstone (1935) and South Country
Secrets (1935).
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TOMALIN,
RUTH (1 Dec 1919 – 22 Nov 2012)
(married names Leaver and
Ross, aka Ruth Leaver)
1950s – 1970s, 2000s
Poet, journalist,
children's author, and novelist. Her first novel for adults was All Souls (1952), called by the Observer "A prettily written
first novel with a long-dead witch resurrected in an English village."
Four of her later works—The Garden
House (1964), The Spring House
(1968), Away to the West (1972),
and The Orchard House (2008)—trace
the youth and young adulthood of Ralph Oliver and his cousin Rowan, and have
been considered by turn to be children's fiction or adult novels about
childhood. Children's titles include two published under her maiden name, Green Ink (1951) and The Sound of Pens (1955). In comments
to Twentieth Century Children's Writers,
she said "Most of my stories are about people and things of the English
countryside. All are set in places well known to me at different times,
ranging from a copse full of wild life (The
Daffodil Bird) to Broadcasting House, London (The Sea Mice); and from a glass "watch-house" in a
nature preserve (A Stranger Thing)
to a reporters' room on a provincial evening paper."
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TOM-GALLON, NELLIE (1874 – 1 Feb 1938)
(pseudonym of Helen Kate Gallon)
1920s – 1930s
Author, with Calder Wilson, of Monsieur Zero (1923), a collection of crime stories set in Monte
Carlo, and He Who Walked in Scarlet
(1924). She later wrote four novels on her own, which sound more like
romances—Dawn of Desire (1927), Full Passionate Mood (1928), The Man Who Changed His Wife (1928),
and I Meant No Harm! (1935).
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TONKS, ROSEMARY [DESMOND BOSWELL] (17 Oct 1928 – 15
Apr 2014)
1940s – 1970s
Poet, children's author, and author of six novels.
Her two children's books—On Wooden
Wings: The Adventure of Webster (1948) and The Wild Sea Goose (1951)—qualify her for this list. Her novels
are Emir (1963), Opium Fogs (1963), The Bloater (1968), Businessmen as Lovers (1969), The Way Out of Berkeley Square (1970),
and The Halt During the Chase
(1972).
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TORDAY, URSULA [JOYCE] (19 Feb 1912 – 6 Mar 1997)
(aka Paula Allardyce, aka Charity Blackstock, aka
Lee Blackstock, and aka Charlotte Keepel)
1930s, 1950s –
1980s
Author of nearly 60 novels, including mysteries and
historical romance. After three early novels under her own name—The Ballad-Maker of Paris (1935), No Peace for the Wicked (1937), and The Mirror of the Sun (1938)—Torday
stopped writing until well after World War II, during which time her
activities included social work with Jewish children who survived Nazi
concentration camps, experiences she later detailed in Wednesday's Children (1966, aka The Children). When she returned to publishing, her focus was
primarily on historical romance and gothic novels, but among her early works
under her Charity Blackstock pseudonym (some published in the U.S.—for
whatever reason—under the name Lee Blackstock), Torday seems to have
published some more or less straightforward mysteries. Dewey
Death (1956) was described by the Spectator as a "first-class first
novel that gives new twist to old theme of corpse-in-the-library." Other
of Torday's early mysteries include Miss
Fenny (1957, aka The Woman in the
Woods), The Shadow of Murder
(1958, aka All Men Are Murderers)
and The Foggy, Foggy Dew (1958).
Among her non-mysteries, also under her Blackstock pseudonym, is The Briar Patch (1960), set in Paris
shortly after World War II, focused on two teenagers, one a Jewish Holocaust
survivor. Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers noted that
"Blackstock's consistently realistic characters, whose reactions can be
readily related to common experience, have contributed to her success in the
field of romantic fiction."
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Torrie, Malcolm
see MITCHELL, GLADYS
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TOWERS,
FRANCES (10 May 1885 – 1 Jan 1948)
1940s
A long-time Bank of England employee and later a
teacher of English and History. Author of a single story collection Tea with Mr. Rochester (1949,
reprinted by Persephone). Towers's only other published work appears to have
been a children's non-fiction book about The
Two Princesses (1940).
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TOWNSHEND,
DOROTHEA (c1853 - 1930)
(née Baker)
1890s – 1910s
Biographer and author of at least ten works of
fiction, including children's books and novels. Her children's fiction
include Captain Chimney-Sweep: A Story
of the Great War (1900), The Faery
of Lisbawn (1900) and The Children
of Nugentstown and Their Dealings with the Sidhe (1911). Novels include Strange Adventures of a Young Lady of
Quality MDCCV (1893), A Lost
Leader: A Tale of Restoration Days (1902) and Whither?: The Story of a Flight (1918).
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TRACY, CAMILLA (29 Apr 1899 – 22 Jan 1983)
(pseudonym of Vera Benedicta Gage, married name
Birch)
1950s
Author of one novel, Cousin Charles (1950), about which I've found no details.
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TRACY, HONOR
[LILBUSH WINGFIELD] (19 Oct 1913 – 13 Jun 1989)
1950s – 1970s
Travel writer and author of 13 novels, which often
satirize British/Irish relations. Titles are The Deserters (1954), The Straight and Narrow
Path (1956), The
Prospects Are Pleasing (1958), A
Number of Things (1960), A Season
of Mists (1961), The First Day of
Friday (1963), Men at Work
(1966), The Beauty of the World
(1967, aka Settled in Chambers), The Butterflies of the Province
(1970), The Quiet End of Evening
(1972), In a Year of Grace (1975), The Man from Next Door (1977), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979). She
was also well known for her humorous travel books, such as Mind You, I've
Said Nothing! (1953), Silk Hats and No Breakfast (1957), and Winter in Castile (1973).
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TRAFFORD-TAUNTON, [EMILY] WINIFRIDE (26 Jan 1866 – 16
Aug 1951)
(née Hetherington, aka Lewis Cornewall)
1900s – 1910s
Author of nine novels, most apparently rather
melodramatic in tone. The first eight—Marked
with a Cipher (1901), Silent
Dominion (1903), The Redemption of Damian Gier (1904), The Doom of the House of Marsaniac
(1905), Igdrasil (1906), The Threshold (1908), The
Romance of a State Secret (1911), and The
Night Dancer (1912)—appeared under her own name, while the last—The House in Crooked Usage
(1917)—appeared under her pseudonym.
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TRAIL, VALENTINE (1859 – 3 Apr 1932)
(pseudonym of Felicite Valentine, née Edwards)
1900s, 1930s
Author of four novels, of which little seems to
remain except largely negative reviews. Titles are David Armstrong's Curse (1904), John Paxton: Gentleman (1907), Was He a Coward? (1909), and The
Mock Brahman (1931). Of the first, The
Publisher's Circular said, "The story is badly written and as
amateurish a performance as we have read for many a long day."
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TRASK, [MARGARET] BETTY (ELIZABETH) [LISLE] (2 Jan
1893 – 25 Jan 1983)
1920s – 1950s
Author of more than 30 romantic novels, including Cotton Glove Country (1928), Flute, Far and Near (1929), Beauty, Retire (1932), A Bus at the Ritz (1935), Feather Your Nest (1938), The Sun Fades the Stars (1940), Change for a Farthing (1942), and Bitter Sweetbriar (1955).
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Travers, John
see BELL, EVA MARY
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TREADGOLD, MARY (16 Apr 1910 – 14 May 2005)
1940s - 1970
BBC radio producer and author of more than a dozen
children's books. Best known for her classic We Couldn't Leave Dinah (1941), about children who miss the
evacuation of a fictional Channel island (because they can't leave their
horse behind) and end up aiding the resistance to the Nazis. ODNB said of it: "Treadgold
combined evocative landscape descriptions with a gripping adventure story,
giving a powerful and moving account of the complexities of divided
loyalties, collaboration, and threatened relationships in an occupied
country, seen through the analytical eyes of teenagers." A sequel, The Polly Harris (1949), follows the
children into the immediate postwar years. Others include No Ponies (1946), The Running Child (1951) The
Winter Princess (1962), Maids'
Ribbon (1965), and The Rum Day of
the Vanishing Pony (1970).
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TREE, VIOLA (17 Jul 1884 – 15 Nov 1938)
(married name Parsons, aka Hubert Parsons [with
Gerald du Maurier])
1920s
Niece of novelist Max Beerbohm and half-sister of
film director Carol Reed. Actress, singer, and playwright. With Gerald du
Maurier she wrote one pseudonymous novel, The
Dancers (1923), which they then adapted into a play starring Tallulah
Bankhead. Tree wrote a second play on her own, The Swallow (1925), and a memoir, Castles in the Air (1926). She made a cameo appearance in the
film version of Pygmalion (1938),
having previously played the lead in a stage production of it.
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TREFOR, EIRLYS (31 May 1918 – 14 Jul 1994)
(pseudonym of Eirlys Olwen Williams, née Morris)
1950s, 1970s,
1990s
Trained nurse and author of four works of fiction
widely separated in time, including two children's books—The New Umbrella (1950) and The
Old Man of Gilfach (1993)—and two novels—Light Cakes for Tea (1958) and Woman in a Valley of Stones (1972). She also co-wrote a travel
book about Yugoslavia (1955).
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TREFUSIS,
VIOLET (6 Jun 1894 – 1 Mar 1972)
(née Keppel)
1920s – 1970s
Most famous for her affair and near-elopement with
Vita SACKVILLE-WEST and for her mother Alice Keppel, who was the scandalous
mistress of Edward VII, Trefusis also wrote eight novels, four in French and
four in English. According to ODNB,
she had earlier co-written Sackville-West's novel Challenge, a thinly-veiled fictional version of their adventures,
which was scheduled for publication in 1920, then withdrawn by Sackville-West.
It appeared in the U.S. in 1923, but wasn't published in Britain until 1974,
in both cases credited only to Sackville-West. Trefusis also appears as the
Russian Princess Sasha in Virginia WOOLF's Orlando, a fictionalized version of Woolf's own relationship with
Vita, and Vita's manuscript recounting her relationship with Trefusis
appeared only after her death in son Nigel Nicolson's Portrait of a Marriage (1973). Finally, Trefusis's fourth novel, Broderie Anglaise (1935), is her own
response to Orlando, yet another
side of the story of the women's three-way relationship. Her other novels in
French are Sortie de Secours
(1929), about a woman trying to make her lover jealous with another man, Écho (1931), based on her childhood
holidays in Scotland, and Les Causes
Perdues (1941), "set among an unpleasant group of aristocrats and
their servants" (ODNB). Her
four English-language novels are Tandem
(1933), Hunt the Slipper (1937),
about the British aristrocracy, which Lorna Sage called "splendidly
malicious," Pirates at Play
(1950), about wealthy Brits living in Florence, and one final work, From Dusk to Dawn (1972), also an
aristocratic comedy, written to distract her from the pain of her final
illness. Hunt the Slipper and Pirates at Play were reprinted by
Virago in the 1980s. In 1952, Trefusis published her memoir, Don’t Look Round, which was not as
revealing as readers hoped. The letters Trefusis wrote to Sackville-West were
published in 1987.
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TREMAYNE, EILEEN (26 Feb 1896 – 17 Nov 1974)
(pseudonym of Eileen Marie Tremayne Wade, née
Edwards)
1930s - 1950s
Author of ten novels. Reading 1900-1950 reviewed Those Who Remain (1942) here.
In The Flyer: British Culture & the
Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Martin Francis described Four Who Came Back (1941) as "a socially conservative novel,
in which the heroes are officers from affluent families and the villain a
pregnant working-class ATS typist, who wrongly accuses an army lieutenant of
being the father of her child, in the hope of gaining his family's
money." The others are —Quatrain
(1933), Paul and Michael (1934), Jardinet (1936), Book of Louise (1938), English
Family (1940), House Enduring
(1944), The Façade (1947), and A Mirror for Reflection (1951).
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Tremaine,
Herbert
see LITTLE, MAUDE [AMELIA]
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TRENEER,
ANNE (30 Jan 1891 – 22 Aug 1966)
(aka S. K. Ensdaile)
1920s – 1930s
Literary scholar, biographer, memoirist, and
children's author. Her memoirs about life as a schoolteacher—School House in the Wind (1953), Cornish Years (1949), and A Stranger in the Midlands (1952),
were reprinted in 1998. It was only recently revealed that she was also
"S. K. Ensdaile," author of four girls' school stories—Philippa at School (1928), Marceline Goes to School (1931), Discipline for Penelope (1934), and Puck of Manor School (1938)—which Sims
& Clare praise for their vivid characterization.
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TRENERY,
GLADYS GORDON (1885 – 1 Aug 1938)
(aka G. G. Pendarves, aka
Marjory E. Lambe, aka ????)
1930s
A prominent
author of ghost stories whose works, according to Richard Dalby, were mostly
published in periodicals and remain uncollected. The British Library does
show a single novel, Crag's Foot Farm:
A Novel of Leicestershire (1931).
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TRENT, ETHEL (dates unknown)
1930s
Untraced author of three short romances—Fairy Gold (1932), All She Wanted (1932), and Second Best (1933).
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Trent, Guy
see PEARSON, MOLLIE (MARY)
SUSAN SEYMOUR
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TRENT, HILDA (dates unknown)
1920s – 1930s
Untraced author of nearly 20 romantic novels,
including The Madcaps (1922), Polly in a Pickle (1922), Nobody's Darling (1924), Bothersome Bunty (1926), A Winsome Widow (1926), Bunty Breaks Out (1927), The Latest Girl (1927), The Girl in His Past (1930), and The Bogus Heir (1931).
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TREVELYAN,
GERTRUDE EILEEN (17 Oct 1903 – 11 Feb 1941)
1930s
Author of
eight novels, including the acclaimed Appius
and Virginia (1932), a dark fantasy about a spinster who adopts a baby
ape and raises it as her son. The others are Hot-house (1933), As It Was
in the Beginning (1934), A War
without a Hero (1935), Two Thousand
Million Man-Power (1937), William's
Wife (1938), Theme with Variations
(1938), and Trance by Appointment
(1939).
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TREVOR, BETTY (dates unknown)
1920s – 1940s
Untraced author of nearly twenty romances, including
An Adorable Minx (1923), A Boisterous Beauty (1923), Too Charming by Half (1927), A Bride for Sale (1929), Passions at Bay (1931), More Than Her Share (1933), Schoolgirl Wife (1939), The Betrayal of Daisy Lester (1941),
and Her Two Lovers (1944).
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TREVOR,
[LUCY] MERIOL (15 Apr 1919 – 12 Jan 2000)
1940s – 1990s
Biographer, children's writer, and author of 20
novels. Her fiction is consistently informed by her strong Catholic beliefs,
and she earned particular acclaim for her 1962 biography of Cardinal Newman.
The St. James Guide to Children's Writers notes that her children's fiction is often "a kind of fantasy
that is peculiarly her own, mixing myth, magic, traditional folklore, and
Christian allegory." Her 15 children's titles include The Forest and the Kingdom (1949), Sun Slower, Sun Faster (1955), The Caravan War (1958), The Midsummer Maze (1964), and The Crystal Snowstorm (1997). Her
novels include The Last of Britain
(1956), Shadows and Images (1960), The Two Kingdoms (1973), The Forgotten Country (1975), and The Wanton Fires (1979).
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TREW, CECIL
[GWENDOLEN/GWENDOLIN ST LEGER] (22 Mar 1897 – 4 Apr 1958)
(née Russell, later
married name Ehrenborg)
1930s
Best known as an illustrator, including for two
Primrose Cumming books, and for non-fiction on animals and drawing, Trew also
published several children's books, including the pony stories Asido: The Story of a Mexican Pony
(1935) and Wild Horse of the West
(1937).
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TREWIN, YVONNE (1917 - ????)
(married name Green)
1940s
A nurse herself and author of one girls' career
story, Jean Becomes a Nurse (1947),
which forms part of a series written by Doreen SWINBURNE. We know that she
did her nursing training at Middlesex Hospital 1936-1939, married in
Middlesex in 1942, and appeared on nursing registers into the 1950s, but
after that her trail goes cold.
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TRICKETT, RACHEL (20 Dec 1923 – 24 Jun 1999)
1950s – 1960s
Literary scholar, principal of St. Hugh's College,
Oxford for nearly two decades, and author of five novels, which, according to
her Guardian obit, "show a
remarkable understanding of matters of the heart, and an approach to them
which is at once melancholy, perceptive and humorous." Titles are The Return Home (1952), The Course of Love (1954), Point of Honour (1958), A Changing Place (1962), and The Elders (1966). Among her scholarly
works are The Honest Muse: A Study in
Augustan Verse (1967), Browning's
Lyricism (1971), and Ruskin and the
Language of Description (1982).
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TROUBETZKOY,
PRINCESS PAUL (10 Dec 1897 – 28 Oct 1948)
(pseudonym of Rhoda Muriel
[Maire?] Boddam, earlier married name Somervell)
1930s – 1940s
Wife of artist and
sculptor Paul (also Pavel or Paolo) Troubetzkoy and author or co-author of at
least eight novels—Storm Tarn: A Story
of the Fells (1933), Gallows' Seed
(1934), Exodus A.D.: A Warning to
Civilians (1934, collaboration with Futurist artist C. R. W. Nevison), Jonlys the Witch: A Tale of Elizabethan
Superstition (1935), Spider
Spinning (1936), Basque Moon: A
Tale of the Pyrenees Mountains (1937), Half o' Clock in Mayfair (1938, discussed here), and The Clock Strikes (1943). The Bookman's review of Gallows' Seed makes it sound a bit on
the melodramatic side, but they found it "interestingly written, and its
characters are shrewdly imagined." Exodus
A.D. is described by the Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction as "a Future War tale suffused with
interbellum rancour, paranoia and despair about the survival of a civilized
Europe." Prince Troubetzkoy died in 1938, only seven years after their
marriage, and Rhoda died in 1948, apparently as a result of a fall in her
home. She seems to have gone by Maire and perhaps, less frequently, by Marie,
and the British Library catalogue lists her as Mariya Trubetskaya. She is not
to be confused with an older author who was also referred to as Princess
Troubetzkoy: Amélie Louise RIVES (see entry in American list), who published
fiction from the 1880s to 1920s, was married to Paul Troubetzkoy's brother
Pierre.
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TROUBRIDGE, LAURA (1866 – 8 Jul 1946)
(née Gurney, aka Lady Troubridge)
1900s – 1930s
Novelist, illustrator, and etiquette writer, related
by marriage to Una Troubridge (Radclyffe HALL's partner). The Book of Etiquette (1931) and Etiquette and Entertaining (1939) were
used to research the film Gosford Park.
She published more than two dozen novels in all, including The Woman Thou Gavest (1907), Marriage of Blackmail (1909), The Creature of Circumstance (1912), Mrs Vernon's Daughter (1917), Passion Flower (1923), Exit Marriage (1929), and The Brighthavens at Home (1934).
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TROUNCER, MARGARET [LETICIA DUNCAN] (21 Nov 1903 – 3
Oct 1982)
(née Lahey)
1930s – 1970s
Author of more than 20 Catholic-themed historical
novels, including A Courtesan of
Paradise (1936), Go, Lovely Rose
(1941), The Smiling Madonna (1943),
Madame Recamier (1949), The Nun (1953), The Reluctant Abbess (1957), A
Duchess of Versailles (1961), The
Passion of Peter Abélard (1965), The
Dividing Sword (1968), and The Lady
of My Delight (1977).
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Troy, Katherine
see MAYBURY, ANNE
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TROY, UNA
(21 May 1910 - 1993)
(married name Walsh, aka
Elizabeth Connor)
1930s – 1980s
Irish playwright and
author of seventeen novels, whose portrayals of sexuality and unmarried
mothers caused some of her work to be banned in Ireland. Her first two
novels, Mount Prospect (1936, aka No House of Peace) and Dead Star's Light (1938), as well as
four plays written for Ireland's Abbey Theatre, appeared under her pseudonym.
We Are Seven (1955) was filmed as She Didn't Say No (1958). Other novels
include The Workhouse Graces (1959,
aka Graces of Ballykeen), The Brimstone Halo (1965), The Castle That Nobody Wanted (1970), Out of the Everywhere (1976), and So True a Fool (1981).
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TRUSCOTT, L. PARRY (16 Aug 1870 – 14 Nov 1936)
(pseudonym of Gertrude Abbie Agnes Frye, married
name Hargrave, aka Anna Hurst, aka Abbie Hargrave)
1900s – 1920s
Author of nearly a dozen novels as Truscott—including
As a Tree Falls (1903), Motherhood (1904), The Question (1910), Hilary's Career (1913), and Obstacles (1916)—and two more later
novels under her pseudonyms. As Anna Hurst she published Fair Daughters (1924), and as Abbie Hargrave she published Two—and One Over (1925). She was
previously misidentified as Katherine Edith Spicer-Jay, but Elizabeth
Crawford has now definitively corrected that and shed valuable light onto the
author's life—see her fascinating article here.
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TUGWELL,
ELIZABETH D[OROTHY]. M[AUD]. (15 Mar 1904 – 12 Jun 1975)
1930s – 1940s
Author of four children's
books, including Patsy Comes to Stay
(1938), Jill Makes Good (1941), The Girls of Sweetbriar Farm (1946),
and The Girl Who Couldn't Fit In
(1947). The last is a girls' school story.
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TULK-HART,
PAMELA [MAY] (30 Oct 1918 – 24 Jun 2010)
(née Johnsen)
1940s
Co-author, with Margaret
Morrison (who was better known as March COST), of a single novel, Paid To Be Safe (1948), which deals
with the World War II Air Transport Auxiliary. Jenny Hartley noted that
"the women's lives turn out to be an odd blend of strenuous activity,
flying jargon, bridge hands and romance."
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TURK,
FRANCES [MARY] (14 Apr 1915 - 2004)
1930s – 1970s
Author of nearly 60 romantic novels. Candle Corner (1943) is about an RAF
pilot recovering from injuries and finding romance on a farm. The Five Grey Geese (1944) is a
lively, gung-ho tale about a group of young Land Girls—who also find romance,
of course. Goddess of Threads
(1966) is apparently set in Iceland.
Other titles include Doctor
Periwinkle (1937), Angel Hill
(1942), Salutation (1949), The Small House at Ickley (1951), No Through Road (1957), A Lamp from Murano (1963), The Rectory at Hay (1966), and Whispers (1972).
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TURNBULL, MARGARET (17 Nov 1872 – 12 Jun 1942)
1910s – 1930s
Born in Scotland but emigrated to the U.S. with her
family by the age of 12. Turnball was a successful screenwriter in both
Hollywood and London, which formed the backdrop of some of her dozen novels. The Left Lady (1926) is succinctly
summed up by the Bookman: "In
which Miss Emmie romantically outwits middle age." The same publication
rather condescendingly reviewed The
Bride's Mirror (1934): "Turnbull drags out, dusts off and repaints
the old problem of whether or not the heroine should disclose her scandalous
past to her intended. Capably written feminine time-killer." And Kirkus sums up her final novel, The Coast Road Murder (1934):
"American so-called society with a girl reporter acting detective. The
setting is a roadhouse where a week end house party is disporting
itself." Her other novels are Looking
After Sandy (1914), Handle With
Care (1916), The Close-Up
(1918), Alabaster Lamps (1925), Madam Judas (1926), Rogues' March (1928), The Handsome Man (1929), A Monkey in Silk (1930), and The Return of Jenny Weaver (1932).
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TURNER,
ETHEL MARY (24 Jan 1870 – 8 Apr 1958)
(née Burwell, changed to
Turner upon mother's remarriage, married name Curlewis)
1890s – 1930s
Children's author born in
the U.K. but associated more with Australia. She published nearly three dozen
works of fiction, but her most famous by far was Seven Little Australians (1894), which has been adapted for film,
television, and the stage and spawned three sequels. Other titles include The Family at Misrule (1895), Three Little Maids (1900), The Secret of the Sea (1913), Laughing Water (1920), and The Ungardeners (1925). Her early
story "The Child of the Children" (1897), deals with a group of
upper class girls who attempt to transform a girl from the wrong side of the
railroad tracks and pass her off as one of their class. When it was reprinted
in 1958, editor James Bennett suggested that George Bernard Shaw may have
stolen Turner's idea for his 1914 play Pygmalion,
later turned into the stage and film musical My Fair Lady. The popularity of makeover plots both before and
after Turner's story would, however, make such an allegation difficult to
prove. Turner's middle name seems to have been Sybil at birth, possibly
changed to Mary, but her marriage registration gives middle initial
"I".
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TURNER,
LILIAN [WATTNALL] (21 Aug 1867 – 25 Aug 1956)
(née Burwell, changed to
Turner upon mother's remarriage, married name Thompson)
1890s – 1930s
Sister of Ethel Mary
TURNER. Born in the U.K. but emigrated with her family to Australia by her
early teens. Author of two Australian school stories—The Girl from the Back Blocks (1914) and Jill of the Fourth Form (1924)—and about 20 other works of
fiction, including April Girls
(1911), The Happy Heriots (1926),
and Ann Chooses Glory (1928).
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TURNER, SHEILA [DOROTHEA] (15 Jul 1906 – 14 Feb
1965)
(married name Tilney)
1960s
Author of five novels, including Over the Counter: A Year in the Village
Shop (1960), which just barely qualifies her for this list. That novel,
according to Melissa, a reader of this blog, is a gently humorous tale along
the lines of Miss Read. Turner's later novels, including This Is Private (1962), A
Farmer's Wife (1963, published in the US as Farmer Takes a Wife), The
Farm at King's Standing (1964, published in the US as A Little Place Called King's Standing),
and Honestly, the Country! (1965),
seem to become a bit darker in tone.
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TUTTON,
DIANA [CICELY] (19 Sept 1915 – 10 Jul 1991)
(née
Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne)
1950s
Author of three novels, most famously her debut, Guard
Your Daughters (1953),
which has been rediscovered by bloggers in recent years and reprinted by Persephone.
On the surface a humorous romance about a family of cheerful sisters looking
for love despite their mother's anxieties, underneath it's a bit darker.
Tutton's two later novels are understandably less popular—Mamma (1955), about a woman in love
with her son-in-law, and The Young Ones
(1959), which flirts with the idea of brother-sister incest. On the 1939
England & Wales Register she is shown as a "student of music".
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Tweedale, J. or
Judith
see BICKLE, JUDITH BRUNDRETT
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TWEEDALE,
VIOLET (17 Mar 1861 – 10 Dec 1936)
(née
Chambers)
1890s – 1920s
Suffragist, journalist, and author of around 30
works of fiction, often influenced by her socialist beliefs and interest in
the occult. Titles include And They Two
(1897), Lord Eversleigh's Sins
(1905), The Quenchless Flame (1909),
The Heart of a Woman (1917), The School of Virtue (1923), and Mellow Sheaves (1927). She also
published books about spiritualism, including the aptly titled Ghosts I Have Seen and Other Psychic
Experiences (1919).
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TWEEDSMUIR,
SUSAN [CHARLOTTE] (20 Apr 1882 – 21 Mar 1977)
(née Grosvenor, married
name Buchan, Tweedsmuir comes from her title, Baroness Tweedsmuir, aka Susan
Buchan)
1920s – 1960s
Wife of novelist John Buchan, mother of Alice
BUCHAN, sister-in-law of Anna BUCHAN. Biographer, memoirist, children's
writer, and author of six novels. Cousin
Harriet (1957), her best-known work by virtue of a Penguin reprint in the
1960s, tackles the story of a pregnant unmarried girl in epistolary style.
This was one of three late novels all subtitles "A Victorian
Story." The others were Dashbury
Park (1959) and A Stone in the Pool
(1961). Her three earlier novels were The
Scent of Water (1937), The Silver
Bell (1944), and The Rainbow
through the Rain (1950). She published three slender volumes of memoirs—The Lilac and the Rose (1952), A Winter Bouquet (1954), and The Edwardian Lady (1966). She also
published several biographies and children's books, the latter as Susan
Buchan.
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TYLER, F. M.
(dates unknown)
1920s
Untraced author of two
girls' school stories, Bunty of
Dormitory B (1929) and Patty's
First Term (1929).
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TYLER,
PHILLIPA [ELISE] (27 May 1876 – 5 Feb 1946)
1910s – 1920s
Author of three novels—The Lushington Mystery (1919), The Manaton Disaster (1920), and A Quest for a Fortune (1924).
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TYNAN,
KATHARINE (23 Jan 1861 – 2 Apr 1931)
(married name Hinkson)
1890s – 1930s
Mother of Pamela HINKSON.
Prolific Irish poet and novelist with nearly 100 novels to her credit,
including A Daughter of the Fields
(1901), A Shameful Inheritance
(1914), The House of the Foxes
(1915), The Web of Farulein (1916),
The Honourable Molly (1919), A
Mad Marriage (1922), The Wandering Years (1922), and The Respectable Lady (1928).
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TYRRELL,
MABEL L[OUISE]. (30 Oct 1883 – 9 Jun 1962)
1920s – 1950s
Playwright, children's writer, and novelist. Author of more
than two dozen works of fiction in all, beginning with children's books,
including two girls' school stories, Victoria's
First Term (1925) and Miss Pike and
Her Pupils (1928). Others include Secrets
of the Mountains (1925), The Fortunes
of the Braithwaits (1925), and The
Enchanted Camp (1930). By the 1930s, she began writing primarily for
adults. Chestnut Court (1929)
focuses on an assortment of neighbors around a Paris courtyard. The Street of Fortune (1939) is about
a happily married woman whose past trial for murder haunts her. The Secrets of Nicholas Culpeper
(1945) is set in 17th century England—Kirkus
summed it up: "Superstition giving way to facts, to scientific, medical
and political investigation, this avoids the swashbuckling in preference for
the battle of ideas, of mental progress in the early days of
enlightenment." Others include The
Mushroom Field (1931), Pull the
House Down (1938), and Give Me a
Torch (1951). On the 1939 England & Wales Register, she reported her
birth year as 30 Oct 1884, but her birth was registered in the first quarter
of 1884, so I assume she was shaving a year off her age.
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