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Barbara Willard
(1909 - 1994)
Barbara Mary Willard (March 12, 1909 - February 18, 1994) was a British novelist best known for children’s historical fiction. Her Mantlemass Chronicles is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England. For one chronicle, The Iron Lily (1973), she won the annual Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by panel of British children’s writers.
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The Eleanor Farjeon Book (1966)
A collection of short stories published in celebration of the life and work of Eleanor Farjeon. Contains the first version of ‘Poor Stainless’ by Mary Norton.
Author(s):
William Mayne
Mary Norton
Rosemary Sutcliff
Barbara Willard
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Lark and the Laurel (1970)
When her father goes into exile after the fall of Richard III, a sheltered sixteen-year-old girl is sent to stay with an unconventional aunt.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Barbara Willard
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
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