Bridget Martyn (August 4, 1935 – 2020) was an encyclopedist, the senior editorial manager of
Oxford University Press's Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia in 1993 and editor-in-chief of
Microsoft Encarta from 1993 through 1995.
She authored ''The Bible for Children'' with Jean Atcheson, first published in 1973 which had a foreword by the
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
.
In 1978 she published ''Fairy Tales'' which included retellings of classic fairy tales.
Martyn was born in
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
.
She went to Edinburgh University and graduated with a degree in French and German.
She married Robert Hadaway in 1967.
They raised three children and later divorced.
References
2020 deaths
Female writers from Cairo
1935 births
English children's writers
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