ENG 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Burning Bush, Longcase Clock, Coffin House
10 Nov 2016
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One of the leading children"s authors of the 20th century. Born in the village of great shelford in cambridgeshire beside the river cam. Read english and history at girton college cambridge. Her first novel was published in 1955: minnow on the sy (runner-up for carnegie. During the 1970s and 90s, she wrote text for picture books and published a number of short story collections. The next long novel did not appear until 1983 with the way to sattin shore. Pearce"s first three novels and several of her short stories touch on two themes: the relationship between childhood and old age and the solitary child"s creation of a fantasy world, which can be both enriching and destructive. The manner of writing in these books is restrained, carefully avoiding melodrama (occl) If i were asked to name a single masterpiece in english children"s literature since the.
