Sybil Dorothy Vicary (''née'' Mudge) was an English novelist. She was best known for her school adventure story novels aimed at 14- to 15-year-old girls, including '' Lucy Brown's School Days'' and '' Niece of the Headmistress''. Vicary lived in

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

in the 1930s and moved to

Golders Green Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in England. A smaller suburban linear settlement, near a farm and public grazing area green of medieval origins, dates to the early 19th century. Its bulk forms a late 19th century and ea ...

in London in the 1950s, where she wrote '' A Secret at Sprayle'' in 1955 under the name Dorothy Mary Rice.

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