Margaret Storey (children's writer)

Margaret Storey is the author of several books for children. 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." [1]

Her work includes a 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"[1] This series includes the following works:

  • Timothy and Two Witches
  • The Stone Wizard aka "The Stone Sorcerer"
  • The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels
  • A Quarrel of Witches
  • The Sleeping Witch
  • A War of Wizards (1976)
  • The Double Wizard

Her books for older children include

  • Wrong Gear
  • Keep Running
  • Pauline
  • The Mollyday Holiday

Pauline, about an orphan forced to live with uncomprehending relatives, has been described as "an astonishingly mature novel for a new writer".[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Neil Gaiman's Journal
  2. ↑ Marcus Crouch, The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England, 1945-1970, Ernest Benn, 1972, p 212.



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