Early Days - Hardcover

Read, Miss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754034496 ISBN 13: 9780754034490

Publisher: Chivers Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

'Early Days' combines two volumes of autobiography by the bestselling novelist, Miss Read. The two stories tell of her childhood, when she was known as Dora Shafe, growing up in South London and Kent during the First World War.

About this title

About the Author:

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter. Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0754034496
• ISBN 13: 9780754034490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208