Lizzie Allen Harker (née Watson; 1863 – 14 April 1933) was an English author. Amongst her works are the play '' Marigold'' (with

Francis R. Pryor Francis Robert "Frank" Pryor (30 March 1862 – 4 December 1937) was an English playwright. Pryor was the youngest son of Robert Pryor of High Elms, Hertfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Caroline née Wyrley-Birch.Burke's Peerage. Pryor of Westo ...

), which was turned into a 1938 film '' Marigold''. It was also broadcast on 22 May 1943 as one of the first episodes of BBC Radio's long-running drama strand ''

Saturday Night Theatre ''Saturday Night Theatre'' was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in April 1943. The plays featured in t ...

''.''Radio Times'', Issue 1024, 16 May 1943, p. 18
/ref> She was born in

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...

and educated at

Cheltenham Ladies College Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Consistently ranked as one of the top all-girls' schools nationally, the school was established in 1853 to pr ...

. She was the wife (married 1885), and later widow, of James Allen Harker (1847–1894), professor at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Their sons were Oswald Allen Harker (1886–1968) and Brig. Arthur William Allen Harker CBE (1890–1960), and possibly more.

Works

* ''A Romance of the Nursery'' 1902 * ''Concerning Paul and Fiammetta'' 1906 * ''His First Leave'' * '' Miss Esperance and Mr Wycherly'' 1908 * ''Master and Maid'' * ''The Ffolliots of Redmarley'' * ''Mr Wycherly's Wards'' * ''Jan and her Job'' * ''Children of the Dear Cotswolds'' * ''Allegra'', 1919 * ''The Bridge Across'', 1921 * ''Her Proper Pride'' (with F.R. Pryor) * ''The Really Romantic Age'', 1922 * ''The Vagaries of Tod and Peter'', 1923 * ''The Broken Bow'', 1924 * ''Hilda Ware'', 1926 * '' Marigold'', with F.R. Pryor 1927 * ''Black Jack House'', 1929

References

External links

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Plays by Lizzie Allen Harker and F.R. Pryor on Great War Theatre
1863 births 1933 deaths 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers {{England-writer-stub