Gillian Avery

From about 1851 AK went to live with one of her brothers, to look after his three children, two boys and a girl, after the death of his wife (presumably in childbirth, since the youngest...

Critic Gillian Avery suggests that Castle Blair (in which English children side with the tenants of their uncle's Irish estate against his oppressive bailiff, who is then nearly killed) was significantly influenced by Annie Keary

Gillian Avery suggests that Flora Shaw 's Castle Blair, 1878, whose plot of English children on a family Irish estate taking the part of the tenants in dangerous disputes must derive from AK ...

Gillian Avery admires this book (which she finds both moving and exciting) for its even-handed rendering of the issues of the Revolution. MR , she says, never for a moment claims, as did most of...

Mary J. Y. Harris in 1930 pronounced MR the most brilliant of the group of women writers who lived at Torquy in Devon during the 1860s and later. More recently Gillian Avery has found...

Twentieth-century children's writer Gillian Avery found AK 's name in Charlotte Yonge 's little book What Books to Lend and What to Give, 1887, which mentions four of her works as suitable for prizes...

Gollancz put out a new edition in 1969 with an introduction by Gillian Avery .

The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...

It was delayed in the printing: AK had been disappointed in her hopes of sending a copy to a girl, now in a reformatory, whom she had known as a servant. It was reprinted...

This was re-issued (as by the author of Atelier du Lys) by the Church of England publishing house, the National Society's Depository , in 1890. Gollancz put out a new edition in 1967 with...

This story is set around the village of Leyrac in Bordeaux, France. The French Revolution casts its shadow almost from the first page. Gillian Avery thinks that the chateau where Stéphanie lives for some...

PL 's Victorian children's story Fanny's Sister was contextualized by British Book News as resembling Mary Martha Sherwoodwithout the moralizing and approaching the larger-scale tales of Gillian Avery .

MR issued, anonymously, at both London and New York, the earliest book identified as hers: Summerleigh Manor; or, Brothers and Sisters, designed, as her preface mentions, for young readers.