Which British Novelist who was born in 1898 wrote a series of seven fantasy novels for children?
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Narnia (world) Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, "The Chronicles of Narnia". The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles takes place.
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C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially "The Screwtape Letters", "The Chronicles of Narnia", and "The Space Trilogy", and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as "Mere Christianity", "Miracles", and "The Problem of Pain".
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Seven Little Australians Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and flighty stepmother Esther.
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Rhys Davies (writer) Rhys Davies (9 November 1901 – 21 August 1978) (born Vivian Rees Davies) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language.
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A. S. M. Hutchinson Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (2 June 1879 – 14 March 1971), commonly known by his initials A. S. M. Hutchinson, was a British novelist.
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Kathleen Hale Kathleen Hale OBE (24 May 1898 – 26 January 2000) was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat.
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The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley.
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Hugh Walpole bibliography Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a 20th-century English novelist, had a large and varied output. Between 1909 and 1941 he wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his "Herries" series, set in the Lake District.
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Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
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Richard Armstrong (author) Richard Armstrong (18 June 1903 – 30 May 1986) was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. Most of his books were novels set at sea, or sea stories. For one of those, "Sea Change", he won the 1948 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: "Grace Darling: Maid and Myth" (1965). He is often described on the cover of his books as "author and mariner".
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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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O. R. Melling O.R. Melling, also known as G.V. Whelan, is an author of several fantasy novels. Melling's novels are aimed at both adults and young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular.
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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Dorothy Whipple Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (26 February 1893 in Blackburn, Lancashire – 14 September 1966, Blackburn, Lancashire) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books.
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The Cuckoo Clock The Cuckoo Clock by Mary Louisa Molesworth is a British children's fantasy novel published in 1877. The book was published under her pen name Ennis Graham but was then reprinted with her own name in 1882. Original illustrations were done by Walter Crane. A new edition of "The Cuckoo Clock" was published in 1914 with illustrations by Maria L. Kirk.
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Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books.
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Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats CIE, (c. 1858–1916), an English novelist known professionally as S. Levett-Yeats, was the descendant of an old English trading family with connections to British India. S. Levett-Yeats became a soldier with the Indian Army and later joined the Indian Civil Service as a low-level bureaucrat. Inspired by the example of other ambitious Anglo-Indian writers like Rudyard Kipling, Levett-Yeats turned out a series of Victorian potboilers, often set in Europe, that earned him a place on the bestseller lists of the day.
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Reginald Horace Blyth Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English author and devotee of Japanese culture.
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W. B. Maxwell William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a British novelist. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
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Philip Ardagh Philip Ardagh (born 11 September 1961, Kent) is an English children's author, primarily known for the Eddie Dickens series of books. He has written more than 100 books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction.
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Florence Montgomery Florence Montgomery (1843–1923) was an English novelist and children's writer. Her 1869 novel "Misunderstood" was enjoyed by Lewis Carroll and George Du Maurier, and by Vladimir Nabokov as a child.
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The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit.