Mabel Esther Allan
Mabel Esther Allan (born February 11, 1915 - May 14, 1998 ) was a British children's author who has written about 130 books.
Mabel Esther Allan was born in Wallasey in the west of England. At the age of eight she made the decision to become a writer; her father bought her a desk and taught her to type. When the family moved, they even got their own writing room.
She published a few short stories in the 1930s, but her writing activity was interrupted by World War II. Allan served in the Women's Land Army , a civilian organization working in the first organized and World War II field work by women to replace the drawn into the war men, and taught in a school in Liverpool . In 1948 she sent her manuscript, The Glen Castle Mystery, to her publisher, which began her successful professional series.
Although, like many other writers of her time, she often used the textbook genre, she was an advocate of AS Neill , who had established an educational concept that propagated freedom and self-discipline in children.
Her books were partly school stories, partly ballet played a role - especially in the books about Cindy Adams, which she wrote under the pseudonym Jean Estoril . In addition, she used the names Priscilla Hagon and Anne Pilgrim .
Individual evidence
literature
- Chiltern Adventure , Foreword by Mabel Esther Allan, Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2006
- Robertson, Vanessa. Information on Fidra Books website.
Web links
- Web Page on collecting Mabel Esther Allan books, with bibliography
- Web Page on Mabel Esther Allan with full bibliography
- Fidra Books website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Allan, Mabel Esther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Estoril, Jean (pseudonym); Hagon, Priscilla (pseudonym); Pilgrim, Anne (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British children's author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1915 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1998 |