Cynthia Harnett

Cynthia Mary Harnett (born June 22, 1893 in Kensington , London , † October 25, 1981 in Hook , Hampshire ) was a British writer.

Life

Cynthia Harnett was a graduate of the Chelsea School of Art (London). She then began working with her cousin, the painter George Vernon Stokes (1873-1954) and lasted her entire life.

Harnett spent the last years of her life at the "Maryfield Convent" retirement home - run by the Dominican Sisters of Malta - in Hook, Hampshire. She died at the age of 88 in Hook, where she found her final resting place.

Works

Fiction

• Something is rotten in the crowing rooster (“A load of unicorn”). Arena, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-401-01528-1 (former title Eine Ladunf Einhorn disappears or The smuggler from the crowing rooster ).
• The great house . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1968 (reprint of the London 1949 edition).
• Happy tramp. The story of a little girl and her old English sheep dog . Dent, London 1944.
• The apprentice rehearsal. An adventurous story from 15th century London ("Ring out bow bells"). Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7725-2010-3 .
• Nicolas and the wool smugglers ("The wool-pack"). Arena, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-401-01552-4 .
• The sign in the fire. An adventurous story from England Henry VI. ("The writing on the hearth"). Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-7725-0899-5 .

Non-fiction

• A 15th century wool merchant . University Press, Oxford 1966 (People of Britain's past).
• Getting to know dogs . Collins, London 1947.

Awards

• 1951: Carnegie Medal for The Woolpack

literature

• David C. Browning (Ed.): Everyman's Dictionary of literary biography. English & American . Dent, London 1958 (Everyman's library; 499).
• Cynthia Harnett . NBLC, The Hague 1992 (Dokumentatie auteurs en illustratoren van jeugdboeken; 16).

Web links

• Cynthia Harnett at goodtoread.org
• Cynthia Harnett in the Internet Movie Database (English)