Gillian Freeman

Gillian Freeman , AB 's biographer, sees her rejection, when she was not much more than seven, from her beloved friend Effie (who bestowed her friendship on another child instead) as having had a lifelong...

Biographer Gillian Freeman believes that a baby girl born in November 1918 to a maid working for AB 's family was fathered by one or the other of her brothers. Angela applied for and was...

Freeman believes the increased pressure to publish lucrative works ended AB 's golden term of creativity.

AB published The School at The Turrets; her biographer Gillian Freeman dates from this year an increased pressure from publisher Blackie for an annual high earner (though this did not require any increase in...

AB 's famous school stories reflect both her own educational experiences and the rich fantasy life she had lived in adolescence. They mix every-day school life with improbable adventures, running the gamut from hockey games...

AB based this story on her mother's account of her experiences when, fresh from the free and easy atmostphere of Rio, she found herself immured in a strict and harsh English boarding school. The ninth...

In the final pages of this work (quoted at length by Gillian Freeman ) a fire at the boarding-school Chetwood offers an opportunity for the heroine, Aldred, to risk her own life in a prolonged...

Girls in these books sew, roll bandages, dig for victory, arrange care for the children of munitions workers, and raise money in support of the war effort. For the School Colours is also notable for...

Twenty years' worth of AB 's personal letters (together with her final, unfinished book manuscript) were destroyed only a few months before biographer Gillian Freeman arrived on the scene enquiring for material on her.