Celebrating Antonia Forest - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847450377 ISBN 13: 9781847450371

Publisher: Girls Gone By Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

In 2006 an event called 'The Antonia Forest Conference', organised by Hilary Clare, Sally Phillips, Sue Sims (Antonia Forest's literary executor) and Joy Wotton, took place in Bournemouth-AF's home for most of her life-and was attended by over eighty enthusiasts for Forest's books. The fully illustrated conference proceedings include: Over fifty pages of text originally written by Antonia Forest for Run Away Home and never before published, together with an explanatory introduction by Hilary Clare, who knew the author personally Previously unpublished photographs of Antonia Forest, her family, and places of importance in her life Eight fascinating and thought-provoking articles on Antonia Forest and her books, by specialists in different aspects of her life and work, based on talks given at the Antonia Forest Conference in 2006, and now revised for publication Photographs from the Antonia Forest Conference and illustrations to some of the articles A detailed introduction to the Conference and its background by Sue Sims, one of its organisers and Antonia Forest's literary executor Celebrating Antonia

Edition details

• Publisher: Girls Gone By Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847450377
• ISBN 13: 9781847450371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Laura Hicks