Jane Gardam

JG is a prolific, much respected, and still (in 2010) highly productive writer of fiction for children and adolescents, and novels and stories for adults, besides journalism and reviews.

Milestones

11 July 1928

Jean Mary Pearson (who later wrote as JG ) was born at Coatham on the coast of North Yorkshire, the elder of two children.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Miller, Lucasta. “Novel existence”. The Guardian.

By late May 1985

JG 's novel Crusoe's Daughter told the story of an orphan protagonist marooned in an isolated, marsh-surrounded house on the north-east coast of England, whose lonely, aimless life is filled with books and imagination.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(31 May 1985): 599
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.

Biography

Birth and Family

11 July 1928

Jean Mary Pearson (who later wrote as JG ) was born at Coatham on the coast of North Yorkshire, the elder of two children.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Miller, Lucasta. “Novel existence”. The Guardian.