Margaret Storey (children's Writer)
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Elizabeth Margaret Storey (27 June 1926 – 28 September 2022) was a British author of books for children and young adults published by
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Biography

Elizabeth Margaret Storey was born on 26 June 1926. She attended Girton College in Cambridge in 1948 to gain a BA Honours degree in English, and thereafter worked as an English teacher.
Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandma ...
has cited her as an influence: "Margaret Storey is more or less out of print these days, alas. I loved her when I was about seven or eight, and am looking forward to finding out how much of her stuff has wound up in mine."Neil Gaiman's Journal
/ref> Her work included a fantasy series based on the adventures of two children, Timothy and Ellen, and a witch named Melinda Farbright: "the real thing – strange and magical, and above all, dangerous". *''Timothy and Two Witches'' (1966) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart *''The Stone Wizard'' aka "''The Stone Sorcerer''" (1967) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart *''The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels'' (1967) - Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart *''A Quarrel of Witches'' (1970 - Illustrated by Doreen Roberts *''The Sleeping Witch'' (1971) - Illustrated by Janina Ede *''A War of Wizards'' (1976) - Illustrated by Janina Ede *''The Double Wizard'' (1979) - Illustrated by June Jackson She also wrote: *''Pauline'' (1965) *''Wrong Gear'' (1973) *''Keep Running'' (1974) *''Kate And The Family Tree'' (1965) - illustrated by
Shirley Hughes Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred.
*''The Smallest Doll'' (1966) - illustrated by Shirley Hughes *''The Smallest Bridesmaid'' (1966) - illustrated by Shirley Hughes *''The Mollyday Holiday'' (1971) - Illustrated by Janina Ede ''Pauline'', about an orphan forced to live with uncomprehending relatives, has been described as "an astonishingly mature novel for a new writer". She should not be confused with the mystery writer Margaret Storey, who has written a number of books, sometimes under the pseudonym
Elizabeth Eyre Elizabeth Eyre is a pseudonym used by the authors Jill Staynes (1927–2013) and Margaret Storey (born c. 1927) for their ''Sigismondo'' series of novels. Biography From the dust jacket of ''Bravo for the Bride'' (1994): Writing style The ...
with the author Jill Staynes. Storey died on 28 September 2022, at the age of 96.


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1926 births 2022 deaths English children's writers Place of birth missing English women writers {{UK-child-writer-stub