Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later...
Education
Alison Fell
AF
later remembered her childhood, at home, as full of beatings and beltings. This made her into a fanatic for justice and equality, though she felt it might equally easily have produced a working-class fascist...
Dedications
Constance Holme
CH
published with Mills and Boon
(who became her regular publisher) her first novel to reach book form, Crump Folk Going Home, dedicated to her father
and mother
.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
