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Josephine Mary Wedderburn Pullein-Thompson MBE (3 April 1924 – 19 June 2014), sometimes known as Josephine Mann, was a British writer known for her pony books. She was a leading member of the Pony Club and PEN International .
Christine Pullein-Thompson (1925–2005), British pony book writer; Denis Cannan (1919–2011), British playwright born Pullein-Thompson; Diana Pullein-Thompson (1925–2015), British pony book writer; Josephine Pullein-Thompson MBE (1924–2014), British pony book writer and PEN International; Joanna Cannan (1896–1961), British pony book ...
Christine Pullein-Thompson, later Christine Popescu and a nom de plume of Christine Keir (1 October 1925 – 2 December 2005) was a British horsewoman and writer known for her pony books. Her mother, her two sisters and her daughter also wrote pony books; together they created more than 200 books for children – and Christine wrote more than ...
During World War 1 she became a VAD nurse, as did her Oxford friend Carola Oman, who was to become a children's author and biographer. [4] Georgette Heyer was another friend there. [ 5 ] It was during Cannan's nursing duties in Oxford that she met her future husband, Captain Harold J "Cappy" Pullein-Thompson, whom she married in 1918.
Josephine Pullein-Thompson (sister) Diana Farr ( née Pullein-Thompson ; 1 October 1925 – 21 September 2015), was a British horsewoman and writer known for her pony books . Her mother and two sisters also wrote and together they created a large number of children's books, many of which were on the theme of horses.
Maya Angelou, American author, poet and civil rights activist, 86 (born 1928) [37] Oscar Dystel, American paperback publisher, 101 (born 1912). June 19 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist, 90 (born 1924) June 22 – Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet, 67 (born 1947) [38] June 23 – Nancy Garden, American author ...
Pony books themselves began to appear in the late 1920s. [1] In 1928 British lifestyle magazine Country Life published Golden Gorse's The Young Rider which went to a second edition in 1931, and a third in 1935. In the preface to the third edition, the author wrote: "Since then the outlook on children and their ponies has changed very much for ...
Its other output has covered pony books by authors such as K. M. Peyton and Josephine Pullein-Thompson and titles in classic genres such as adventure and school stories. [4] Other Fidra Books authors have included Olivia FitzRoy, Anne Digby, [5] Victoria Walker, Primrose Cumming, Elinor Lyon, [6] Mabel Esther Allan, and Ruby Ferguson.