Marion Pares

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Marion Pares (born November 7, 1914 as Marion Stapylton in West Farleigh , Kent , England ; † December 22, 2004 in Lympne , Kent, England), better known under the pseudonym Judith Campbell , was a British author. She wrote mostly horse literature, which was aimed primarily at children and young people.

Life

Pares was the daughter of Walter John and Dorothy Chetwynd-Stapylton, nee Fletscher. Her father was a corvette captain in the Royal Navy. Pares grew up on a fruit farm in the Kent Downs, where she showed interest in agriculture as well as horses and ponies as a child. She was educated in a boarding school in England. In June 1937 she married Humphrey Pares, a farmer and entrepreneur. From this marriage there were four daughters.

In 1958 Pares published her first children's book called Four Ponies . For her research on The Queen Rides , which appeared in 1964, Pares visited the Royal Mews in London, one of the most famous horse museums in the United Kingdom. In 1965 Pares traveled to Jordan, where she studied the Arab stud of King Hussein I , the horses of the police force and the camels of the desert forces . Her work Horses in the Sun emerged from this in 1966 . In the spring of 1966, Marion Pares and her husband traveled to Crete and the Peloponnese peninsula, where they made a film about village life and wildflowers. In the autumn of 1966 they visited Iran for another film and to research the two books The World of Horses (1969) and The World of Ponies (1970). The Pares collected further research material in Greece and France. In 1970 her best-known work Horses and Ponies appeared , which has been translated into several languages, including German under the title Horses and Ponies . In this book Pares gives a historical outline of horse breeding and introduces horse and pony breeds from all over the world. The Pares went to the United States in 1974 to research the book The Horseman's World (1975).

In addition to the horse books, Pares has published biographies on the British royal family, including Anne: Portrait of a Princess (1969), Elizabeth and Philip (1972), Princess Anne and Her Horses (1972), Queen Elizabeth II (1979), Charles: A Prince of Our Time (1981) and The Royal Partners: The Queen's 35 Years of Marriage (1982).

Under the pseudonym Anthony Grant, she wrote the science fiction novel The Mutant in 1980 .

Works

Apart from the book The Mutant , Pares published all of her works under the pen name Judith Campbell.

  • Four Ponies, Muller, 1958.
  • Merrow Ponies, Muller, 1960.
  • Family Pony, Lutterworth, 1961. (German: Der Ponyfreund: From rearing to the tournament, E. Hoffmann, 1963)
  • The Queen Rides, Lutterworth, 1964, Viking, 1965. (German: The Queen rides - Elizabeth II and her horses, A. Müller, 1966)
  • Horses in the Sun, M. Joseph, 1966, Sportshelf, 1969.
  • Police Horses, David & Charles, 1967, AS Barnes, 1968.
  • Anne: Portrait of a Princess, Cassell, 1969.
  • Pony Events, Batsford, 1969.
  • The World of Horses, Hamlyn, 1969. (German: Pferde, Falken-Verlag, 1974)
  • The World of Ponies, Hamlyn, 1970.
  • Horses and Ponies, Hamlyn, 1970, Grosset, 1971. (German: horses and ponies, Delphin Taschenbuch in color No. 29, Delphin Verlag Stuttgart and Zurich, 1975)
  • Elizabeth and Philip, Regnery, 1972.
  • Princess Anne and Her Horses, Brockhampton Press, 1972.
  • The Treasury of Horses, Octopus Books, 1972.
  • Family on Horseback, Lutterworth, 1972. (German: Family in the saddle, Heidenheim Hoffmann, 1975)
  • The Champions, Arthur Barker, 1973.
  • Royalty on Horseback, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.
  • The Horseman's World, Ridge Press, 1975.
  • The World of the Horse, Octopus Books (London, England); Crowell (New York, NY), 1975.
  • Eventing, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.
  • Anne & Mark, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976.
  • Your Own Pony Club: A Practical Guide to Communal Pony Keeping, Lutterworth, 1979.
  • Queen Elizabeth II, Crown, 1979.
  • The Mutant, Robert Hale, 1980. (under the pseudonym Anthony Grant)
  • Charles: A Prince of Our Time, Octopus Books, 1981.
  • The Royal Partners: The Queen's 35 Years of Marriage, Hale, 1982.
  • Royal Horses, New English Library, 1983.
  • The History of the Royal Family, 1985.

literature

  • Marion (Stapylton) Pares. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Online . Retrieved January 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pares, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Judith; Grant, Anthony; Stapylton, Marion (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH West Farleigh , Kent England
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2004
Place of death Lympne , Kent , England