Margaret Storey (born 27 June 1926) is an author of books for children and young adults published by Faber.

She attended Girton College in Cambridge in 1948 to gain a BA Honours degree in English, and thereafter worked as an English teacher.[1]

Neil Gaiman has cited her as an influence: "Margaret Storey is more or less out of print these days, alas. I loved her when I was about seven or eight, and am looking forward to finding out how much of her stuff has wound up in mine."[2]

Her work includes a fantasy series based on the adventures of two children, Timothy and Ellen, and a witch named Melinda Farbright: "the real thing - strange and magical, and above all, dangerous".[2]

  • Timothy and Two Witches (1966) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart[3]
  • The Stone Wizard aka "The Stone Sorcerer" (1967) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart
  • The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels (1967) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart
  • A Quarrel of Witches (1970 - Illustrated by Doreen Roberts[4]
  • The Sleeping Witch (1971) - Illustrated by Janina Ede[5]
  • A War of Wizards (1976) - Illustrated by Janina Ede
  • The Double Wizard (1979) - Illustrated by June Jackson

She also wrote:

  • Pauline (1965)
  • Wrong Gear (1973)
  • Keep Running (1974)
  • Kate And The Family Tree (1965) - illustrated by Shirley Hughes
  • The Smallest Doll (1966) - illustrated by Shirley Hughes
  • The Smallest Bridesmaid (1966) - illustrated by Shirley Hughes
  • The Mollyday Holiday (1971) - Illustrated by Janina Ede

Pauline, about an orphan forced to live with uncomprehending relatives, has been described as "an astonishingly mature novel for a new writer".[6]

She should not be confused with the mystery writer Margaret Storey, who has written a number of books, sometimes under the pseudonym Elizabeth Eyre with the author Jill Staynes.

References

  1. ↑ Kirkpatrick, D. L. (10 November 1978). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-1-349-03648-6.
  2. 1 2 Neil Gaiman's Journal
  3. ↑ "Charles W. Stewart". The Independent. 17 October 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Art, Manchester School of. "Tigers, caterpillars and other wild things (Monday 16 June — Friday 5 September 2014)". Manchester School of Art. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  5. ↑ Kirkpatrick, D. L. (10 November 1978). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-1-349-03648-6.
  6. ↑ Marcus Crouch, The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England, 1945-1970, Ernest Benn, 1972, p 212.



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