Diana Pullein-Thompson

JC 's three daughters (Josephine , Diana , and Christine Pullein-Thompson ) all had successful writing careers, chiefly in the pony-book genre which their mother had originated. Like JC and her sisters, they began...

MC 's younger sister, Joanna Maxwell Cannan , became, like her, a writer. She was a serious novelist whose first book, Misty Valley, appeared in December 1922. She also moved into (virtually invented)...

(In a side episode, Lisa's unconventional acquisition of a cheap pony which is scorned by her better-mounted step-siblings is closely related to the plot of a pony book by Diana Pullein-Thompson , I Wanted a...