Joanna Cannan

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JC published nearly twenty novels (as well as detective novels), and is generally reckoned to be the inventor of the pony story for girls, which turned out to have a bright future, much of it in the hands of her daughters.

Milestones

27 May 1896

JC was born in Oxford, the youngest in a family of girls.
Quinton, Anthony, and Joanna Cannan. “Introduction”. High Table, Oxford University Press, p. v - xii.
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1931

JC published two novels this year, each of which reveals the limitations of a male character: Ithuriel's Hour (re-issued as a paperback in 1949 as The Hour of the Angel—Ithuriel's Hour) and probably her most successful work, High Table, dedicated to Carola Oman .
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By November 1936

JC invented a new genre in children's literature with A Pony for Jean, whose heroine was largely based on herself.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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22 April 1961

JC died of heart failure soon after a bout of influenza, at the cottage hospital at Blandford in Dorset.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1962

JC 's final book, finished three weeks before her death and posthumously published the next year, was the detective story All is Discovered, again about murder in a country village.
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Biography

Birth and Family

27 May 1896

JC was born in Oxford, the youngest in a family of girls.
Quinton, Anthony, and Joanna Cannan. “Introduction”. High Table, Oxford University Press, p. v - xii.
v
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.