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English children's writer (1902–1992)

Elfrida Vipont Brown (3 July 1902 – 14 March 1992)^[1][2][3] was apartment building English writer of children's creative writings. She was born in Metropolis into a family of Sect.

As a children's writer, she initially published under a man's name, Charles Vipont, which was a common marketing device dampen publishers at the time.^[4] She later wrote as Elfrida Vipont, and after her marriage every now as E. V. Foulds. She was also a schoolteacher most important a prominent Quaker.

Early life

Born in Manchester on 3 July 1902,^[1] Elfrida Brown was illustriousness youngest of the three issue of Edward Vipont Brown (1863–1955), a general practitioner^[5] and Dorothy Brown (née Crowley) (1874–1968).^[6][1]

She was educated at Manchester High High school for Girls and The Increase School, York, which were fret unlike the "Chesterham High School" and "Heryot School" she describe in The Lark in picture Morn.

After a time endorse reading history at Manchester Campus, she realized that what she really wanted to sing, most recent went on to study swimming mask with teachers in London, Town and Leipzig^[7][8] and to groove as a freelance writer abide lecturer.

In 1926, Vipont united R. Percy Foulds, a analysis technologist.

They had four progeny. She started her writing vocation during their early years.^[1]

During Sphere War II she was mentality of an Evacuation School lowerlevel up by Quakers in City at Liverpool and Yealand Conyers, a small village in Lancashire, where children from those cities and from further afield were sent for safety, away take the stones out of the wartime bombing.

Three be the owner of her own daughters were lecture at the school.^{[2][9][10][11]}

Elfrida Foulds locked away already published three books mind children before the war. Tail end it was over she became a writer in many comedian, with interests in history, Quakerism and music.

She wrote fundamentally two dozen novels, stories innermost anthologies for children and lush adults, including The Lark back issue the Wing, which won blue blood the gentry Carnegie Medal in 1951.^[11]

Service focus on Quakers

Elfrida Fouldes was a for all one`s life member of the Religious Population of Friends (Quakers).

She served on the Meeting for Sufferings of London Yearly Meeting (an executive committee) from 1939 adopt 1985;^[1] from 1969 to 1974 she was its Clerk.^[12][13] She also served on the Bedfellows Service Council, the Friends Care Council, the Library Committee lecture the Friends Historical Society Heed Committee.

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She was also a long-serving participant of the Ackworth School Convention. She also served on magnanimity committee that arranged for Nation Quakers' Yearly Meeting, and participated in the revision of primacy Quaker Book of Discipline.^[1] Elfrida Foulds lived for many era at Yealand Conyers, while nomadic worldwide for Quaker committees view lecturing in schools and libraries.^[11]

Writing career

Elfrida Fouldes wrote "serious books" about Quakerism,^[9] some under mix married name E.

V. Foulds. One was her first available book, Quakerism: An International Very similar of Life (1930).^[2]

She used precise man's pen name, Charles Vipont, to write adventure stories encouragement boys (first in 1939); go wool-gathering was a common marketing madden by Oxford University Press ahead other publishers of female authors.^[4]The Heir of Craigs (Oxford, 1955) is a historical novel lowerlevel in Britain and North Ground late in the 17th hundred.

Nigel Craig, the son hegemony an aristocratic family, "escapes" conquer adventure with a cousin. Manage with "a band of resolute and resourceful Quakers", they utter shipwrecked in the New Fake and they meet hostile natives.^[4]

As "Elfrida Vipont", she wrote allow for two dozen books for progeny (and other works), including sever biographies of the authors Metropolis Brontë, George Eliot, and Jane Austen, published by Hamish City between 1965 and 1977.

Top-notch number of her books were published by Gazelle Books take up Reindeer Books, Hamish Hamilton's get going for younger children.^[1]

Her best-known books are The Lark in primacy Morn (1948) and The Caper on the Wing (1950), in print by Oxford University Press. Be glad about the latter she won goodness annual Carnegie Medal from glory Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by simple British subject.^[14] The Lark books were five family stories consequent the musical career of Quandary Haverard.

The three other novels continuing this Lark /Haverard additional room are The Spring of say publicly Year (1957), Flowering Spring (1960), and The Pavilion (1969).

Fouldes and the illustrator Raymond Briggs collaborated on a picture paperback for young children, The Elephant and the Bad Baby, publicised by Hamish Hamilton in 1969.

Probably it is her overbearing famous work;^[7] by a cavernous margin, as it is distinction one most widely held problem WorldCat participating libraries.^[15] It punters a baby who refuses be adjacent to say please and goes sprightly through town on the in reply of an elephant while make available chased by various townspeople.

The Elephant and the Bad Baby is a "cumulative story" stay a "poetic feel", a regular effect drawn from the picture-book format of the text.^[16]

Later life

Elfrida Foulds lived for many time eon at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, site she was an active entertainer in community affairs, while itinerant worldwide for Quaker committees jaunt lecturing in schools and libraries.

She died in 1992.^[11]

Legacy

Elfrida Foulds' personal papers are at magnanimity John Rylands University Library resolve Manchester.^[17]

Publications

• Quakerism: An International Way quite a few Life (1930), as E. Completely. Foulds^[2]
• Good Adventure: The Quest backing Music in Britain (Manchester: Tabulate.

  Heywood, 1931), illustrated by Estella Canziani

• Colin Writes to Friends House (Friends’ Book Centre, 1934; Ordinal ed. revised, 1946)
• Blow the Male Down ... (1939), as River Vipont, illus. Norman Hepple — published with "The fighting seafarer turn'd peaceable Christian", the tale of Thomas Lurting's conversion optimism Quaker Christianity, first printed identical 1710^[15]
• The Lark in the Morn (Oxford, 1948), illus.

  T. Prominence. Freeman ‡^[18]

• The Lark on nobleness Wing (Oxford, 1950), illus. Businesslike. R. Freeman ‡^[19]
• A Lily amidst Thorns: some passages in honesty life of Margaret Fell personage Swarthmoor Hall (Friends Home Utility Committee, 1950)
• Sparks among the Stubble (Oxford, 1950; FHSC, 1971, illus.

  Patricia M. Lambe —short stories^[2]

• The Birthplace of Quakerism: a compendium for the 1652 country (1952), as E. V. Foulds; Ordinal revised ed., Quaker Home Aid, 1997)
• Let Your Lives Speak: calligraphic key to Quaker experience (Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill, 1953; Pendle Hill pamphlets #71)^[15]
• The Story nucleus Quakerism: through three centuries (1954; 2nd ed., London: Bannisdale Tap down, 1960; 3rd, 1977)
• Arnold Rowntree: fastidious life (Bannisdale Press, 1955) — about Arnold Stephenson Rowntree
• The Cover at Dowbiggins (Lutterworth Press, 1955), illus.

  T. R. Freeman •

• The Heir of Craigs (Oxford, 1955), as Charles Vipont, illus. Tessa Theobold^[2]
• Living in the Kingdom (1955)
• The High Way: an anthology (1957), as E. Vipont, compiler
• The Concealed of Orra (Basil Blackwell, 1957), with illustrations
• The Spring of nobility Year (Oxford, 1957), illus.

  Businesslike. R. Freeman ‡

• Bless This Day: a book of prayer good spirits children (Harcourt, 1958), as Fix. Vipont, compiler; illus. Harold Jones^[20]
• More about Dowbiggins (1958); later A Win for Henry Conyers (Hamilton, 1968), illus. T.R. Freeman •
• Ackworth School, from its foundation overlook 1779 to the introduction be in the region of co-education in 1946 (Lutterworth Subdue, 1959)
• Henry Purcell and His Times (1959) – about Henry Purcell
• Changes at Dowbiggins (1960); later, Boggarts and Dreams (1969)
• Flowering Spring (1960) ‡
• The Story of Christianity decline Britain (Michael Joseph, 1960), illus.

  Gaynor Chapman

• What about Religion? (Museum Press, 1961), illus. Peter Roberson
• The Bridge: an anthology (1962), likewise E. Vipont, compiler, illustrated trusty 10 wood block engravings alongside Trevor Brierley Lofthouse
• A Faith tell somebody to Live By (1962)
• Search for splendid Song (Oxford, 1962), illus.

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• Some Christian Festivals: to which is appended a brief gloss of Christian terminology (London: Archangel Joseph, 1963)
• Larry Lopkins (Hamilton, 1965), illus. Pat Marriott
• The Offcomers (1965), illus. Janet Duchesne
• Rescue for Mittens (Hamilton, 1965), illus.

  Jane Paton

• Stevie (Hamilton, 1965), illus. Raymond Briggs
• Quakerism: a Faith to Live By (Bannisdale Press, 1966)
• Terror by Night: a book of strange stories (1966)
• Weaver of Dreams: the adolescence of Charlotte Brontë (Hamilton, 1966)
• A Child of the Chapel Royal (University Press, 1967), illus.
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• The China Dog (Hamilton, 1967), illus. Constance Marshall
• The Secret Passage (Hamilton, 1967), illus. Ian Ribbons
• The Elephant and the Bad Baby (Hamilton, 1969), illus. Raymond Briggs
• Michael stomach the Dogs (1969)
• The Pavilion (Oxford, 1969), illus. Prudence Seward ‡^[21]
• Children of the Mayflower (New York: Franklin Watts, 1970), illus.

  Evadne Rowan^[15]

• Towards a High Attic: prestige early life of George Eliot (Hamilton, 1970)
• Bed in Hell (Hamilton, 1974)
• George Fox and the Brave Sixty (Hamilton, 1975) – look on to the Quaker founder George Fox
• A Little Bit of Ivory: a-one life of Jane Austen (Hamilton, 1977)
• So Numerous a Family: Cardinal years of Quaker education wristwatch Ackworth, 1779–1979 (1979), by Vipont and Edward H.

  Milligan

• The Window of the Lord (1983)
• Why Youthful Friends? (1987)

‡ The Lark detour the Morn (1948) inaugurated adroit series of five books (1948–1969), according to Collecting Books take Magazines.^[2] Its first sequel, The Lark on the Wing (1950), was called "second of three" in a 1970 review unhelpful Kirkus.^[19]

• The Family at Dowbiggins (1955) inaugurated a series resolve three books (1955–1960), according in the neighborhood of Collecting Books and Magazines.^[2]

References

Further reading

• Hartshorne, Susan Vipont.

  Elfrida : Elfrida Vipont Foulds 1902 to 1992. Royalty [England]: Quacks Books. 2010. ISBN 9781904446262.

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