Which British-American novelist's books served as an inspiration to author Katherine Woodfine?
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The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow is the debut novel of British children's author Katherine Woodfine, initially published by Egmont Publishing in June 2015. The novel is the first book in The Sinclair's Mysteries, a quartet of mystery-adventure novels set in Edwardian England.The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month in June 2015. The novel was inspired by Katherine's love of classic children's adventure stories, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (published in 1885–1886), "A Little Princess" (1905), and "The Secret Garden" (1911).
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Evelyn Everett-Green Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.
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Pamela Frankau Pamela Sydney Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) was a popular English novelist. Descended from an artistic and literary family, although abandoned by her novelist father, Gilbert Frankau, at an early age, she became a prolific writer in her early years. She stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover, Humbert Wolfe, in 1940. After serving her country in World War II, she was married for several years to an American naval officer. In the late 1940s, she returned to England and resumed her writing career with even more success than before.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Obernewtyn (novel) Obernewtyn is the first novel in the "Obernewtyn Chronicles" series by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university. Much of the inspiration for the protagonist, Elspeth Gordie, comes from her own life experiences. It was published by Penguin Books in Australia in 1988 and shortlisted for the in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.
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Ursula Holden Ursula Holden (born 8 August 1921) is an English novelist, author of thirteen novels often inspired by her time spent in Ireland. Her first novel, "Endless Race", was published when she was 54.
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Katharine Davies Katharine Davies (born 1968) is a British writer of romance novels. For her debut novel, "A Good Voyage", she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association sponsored by FosterGrant Reading Glasses.
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Plain Kate Plain Kate is a Fantasy novel by author Erin Bow, published in 2010 by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic. The story, which draws from Russian folktales, focuses on an orphan girl nicknamed Plain Kate who is blamed for witchcraft because of her ability to carve wood, and who must deal with a real witch and sell her shadow in order to stay alive.
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Clare Mallory Clare Mallory is the pen name under which Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (25 September 1913 – 20 April 1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951.
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Katherine Strueby Katherine Strueby (28 May 1908 – 14 November 1988) was an American-born British screenwriter. She was married to the writer Gordon Wellesley.
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Alice Muriel Williamson Alice Muriel Williamson, née Livingston (1869 – 24 September 1933) was an American-British novelist, who styled herself Mrs. C. N. Williamson after her marriage.
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Kate Duignan Katherine (Kate) Duignan (see Clan O Duibhgeannain) (born 1974) is a New Zealand novelist.
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Jane Ransom Jane Reavill Ransom is a prize-winning American novelist and poet.
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Louise Allen (novelist) Louise Allen is the pseudonym used by Melanie Hilton (born 1949 in Norfolk, England) a British writer of romance novels since 1993, she started writing in collaboration with a friend under the pen name of Francesca Shaw. Her novels "The Piratical Miss Ravenhurst" in 2011 and "Scandal’s Virgin" in 2014 won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Elizabeth Knox Elizabeth Fiona Knox, ONZM, (born 15 February 1959, in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels, three autobiographical novella, and a collection of essays. Her best known works are "The Vintner's Luck", which won several awards, has been published in nine languages, and has been made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro, and "The Dreamhunter Duet", a literary fantasy series for teen readers. Her most recent novel was "Mortal Fire", published in 2013, which has won several awards.
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Kate Ross Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel.
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Rona Randall Rona Shambrook, née "Green" (born 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England), was a British writer of over 50 gothic, romance novels, and some non-fiction books, under the pseudonym of Rona Randall from 1942 to 2001. She also used her married name Rona Shambrook and the pseudonym of Virginia Standage. In 1970, her novel "Broken Tapestry" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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The Silver Pencil The Silver Pencil is a children's novel by Alice Dalgliesh. Based on the author's life, it tells of the childhood and young adulthood of Janet Laidlaw in the early years of the twentieth century. She moves from Trinidad to England, then to the United States and Nova Scotia, becoming a teacher and a writer. The novel, illustrated by Katherine Milhous, was first published in 1944 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1945.
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The Ambassador's Wife The Ambassador's Wife is a novel by American author Jennifer Steil about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East. The story was inspired by the author's personal experiences as the wife of the British Ambassador to Yemen.
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The Great Fortune The Great Fortune is a novel by English writer Olivia Manning first published in 1960. It forms the opening part of a six part novel series called the Fortunes Of War. The Fortunes Of War itself is split in two trilogies consisting of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. All the novels tell an unfolding story of how the Second World War impacts on the lives of a group of British expatriates.
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Emma Tennant Hon. Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was a British novelist and editor. She was known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic.