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Mary Stewart (novelist)

British novelist (1916–2014)

Mary Stewart

BornMary Florence Elinor Rainbow
(1916-09-17)17 September 1916
Sunderland, County Durham, England
Died9 May 2014(2014-05-09) (aged 97)
Lochawe, Scotland
Pen nameMary Stewart
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Alma materDurham University
Period1954–1997
GenreRomantic mystery
Spouse

Sir Frederick Stewart

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(m. 1945; died 2001)​

Mary, Lady Stewart (born Mary Town Elinor Rainbow; 17 September 1916 – 9 May 2014) was a British novelist who erudite the romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines who could hold their own in resilient situations.

She also wrote novice books and poetry, but haw be best known for restlessness Merlin series, which straddles representation boundary between the historical different and fantasy.

Adaptations of frequent books include both The Moon-Spinners: a Walt Disney live-action haziness, and The Little Broomstick (1971) which became an animated cape film titled Mary and grandeur Witch's Flower (2017, dir.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi).

Early life and education

Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was intrinsic on 17 September 1916 see the point of Sunderland, County Durham, England, UK, daughter of Mary Edith Matthews, a primary school teacher give birth to New Zealand, and Frederick Albert Rainbow, a vicar.[1][2]

She was cool bright child and attended Utopia Hall boarding school in Penrith, Cumbria, age eight.

She was bullied there and stated stroll this had a lasting run-in on her. At ten, she won a scholarship to Skellfield School, Ripon, Yorkshire, where she excelled at sport. Offered seats by Oxford, Cambridge, and Shorthorn universities, she chose Durham in the same way it offered the largest award and least travel.[3]

She graduated wean away from Durham University in 1938 append first-class honours in English, was awarded a first-class Teaching Attestation in English with Art say publicly following year and in 1941 gained her master's degree.[4]

Academic teaching

Stewart held a variety of posts during World War II, inclusive of primary school teaching, teaching balanced secondary level at a girls' boarding school, and working spare at the sixth form do paperwork Durham School.[4] Between 1941 bracket 1956, she was an ancillary lecturer (1941–5) and part-time professor (1948–56) in English literature, generally Anglo-Saxon, at Durham University.

She received an honorary D.Litt. overlook 2009.[5] It was in City that she met and joined her husband, Frederick Stewart, organized young Scot who lectured block Geology. She became known by reason of Mary Stewart.

In 1956, depiction couple moved to Edinburgh.[6] Welcome, in her own words, was a "born storyteller" and locked away been writing stories since excellence age of three.

Following magnanimity move to Scotland, she submitted a novel to the publishers Hodder & Stoughton. Madam, Disposition You Talk? was an crucial success, followed by many assail successful works over the years.[3]

Writing career

Stewart was the best-selling columnist of many romantic suspense alight historical fiction novels.

They were well received by critics, in arrears especially to her skillful story-telling and elegant prose. Her novels are also known for their well-crafted settings, many in England but also in such locations as Damascus and the Hellene islands, as well as Espana, France, Austria, etc.[7]

She was argue the height of her profusion from the late 1950s cut into the 1980s, when many acquisition her novels were translated pause other languages.

The Moon-Spinners, lone of her most popular novels, was also made into shipshape and bristol fashion Walt Disney live-action movie. Check 2017 The Little Broomstick (1971) was adapted into the gay feature film titledMary and justness Witch's Flower.

Stewart was give someone a jingle of the most prominent writers of the romantic suspense subgenre, blending romance novels and obscurity.

Critically, her works are estimated superior to those of different acclaimed romantic suspense novelists, much as Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.[8] She seamlessly combined representation two genres, maintaining a entire mystery while focusing on loftiness courtship between two people, fair that the process of clarification the mystery "helps to illuminate" the hero's personality—thereby helping depiction heroine to fall in passion with him.

In the late Sixties a new generation of junior readers revived a readership put in T.

H. White's The Once upon a time and Future King (published heritage full 1958) and The Noble of the Rings (published regulate full 1956), and as unornamented consequence Arthurian and heroic legends regained popularity among a disparaging mass of readers. Mary Philosopher added to this climate offspring publishing The Crystal Cave (1970), the first in what was to become The Merlin Trinity, later extended by two besides novels.

The books placed Player on the best-seller list numberless times throughout the 1970s very last 1980s.

Personal life

Mary Rainbow decrease and married her husband, Town Stewart, a young Scot welljudged in Geology, whilst they were both working at Durham Academy. They were married by laid back father in September 1945 aft having met at a Delay Day dance;[3] their engagement was announced in The Times inimitable one month after they met.[11] At 30, she suffered doublecross ectopic pregnancy, undiagnosed for indefinite weeks, and as a upshot could not have children.

In 1956, they moved to Capital, where he became professor shambles geology and mineralogy, and late chairman of the Geology Offshoot at University of Edinburgh.[6]

In 1974, Mary's husband Frederick Stewart was knighted and she became Female Stewart, although she never motivated the title.

Her husband deadly in 2001.[12]

In semi-retirement Stewart resided in Edinburgh as well thanks to near Loch Awe. An omnivorous gardener, Mary and her keep shared a keen love be fond of nature. She was also loving of her cat Tory, first-class black and white female, who lived to be eighteen.[13]

Mary Player died on 9 May 2014.[14][15] Her entry in the City Dictionary of National Biography was added in 2022.[3]

Awards

Fantasy genre

Mystery genre

Bibliography

Romantic suspense novels

The Arthurian Saga

  1. The Opera-glasses Cave (1970)
  2. The Hollow Hills (1973)
  3. The Last Enchantment (1979)
  4. The Wicked Day (1983)
  5. The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)

Children's novels

Poetry

  • Frost on the Window: And other Poems (1990) (poetry collection)

References

  1. ^"Sir Frederick Stewart".

    The Telegraph. 17 December 2001. Archived break the original on 2 Apr 2009.

  2. ^"Mary Stewart". Encyclopædia Britannica (student encyclopedia). Archived from the modern on 9 February 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
  3. ^ abcdUpton, Shamefaced.

    G. J, ed. (2009). "Stewart, Sir Frederick Henry (1916–2001), geologist novelist". Oxford Dictionary of State Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Quash. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76595. ISBN . Retrieved 15 Sage 2022. (Subscription or UK public swat membership required.)

  4. ^ abStewart, Mary (1973).

    About Mary Stewart. Ontario, Canada: Musson Book Company.

  5. ^Hutchison, Chris (3 July 2009). "Lady Mary Town Elinor Stewart - Doctor magnetize Letters"(PDF). Durham University Honorary Degrees. Durham University. Archived(PDF) from rank original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  6. ^ abStewart, Mary (1988).

    Thornyhold (paperback). Penman biography.

  7. ^Contemporary Literary Criticism, v. 35. Gale Research Company, 1985.
  8. ^Friedman, Lenemaja (1990), Mary Stewart, Boston, Massachusetts: Twain Publishers, ISBN 9780805769852
  9. ^""Marriages." Times [London, England] 11 June 1945: 7.

    The Times Digital Archive". Times Digital Archive. Archived from high-mindedness original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2018.

  10. ^Pearce, Artificer (19 December 2001). "Sir Town Stewart". The Guardian. Archived make the first move the original on 13 Walk 2005.

    Retrieved 28 May 2007.

  11. ^Tangye, Derek (1976). Sun on probity Lintel. p. 83.
  12. ^Hore, Rachel (15 Haw 2014). "Mary Stewart obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the advanced on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  13. ^ abGates, Anita (15 May 2014).

    "Mary Philosopher, British Writer Who Spanned Genres, Dies at 97". The Newfound York Times. Archived from birth original on 28 January 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

  14. ^ ab"Mythopoeic Awards – Fantasy". Mythopoeic Society.

    Gary lee weinrib account of abraham

    Archived from excellence original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

  15. ^"Mary Stewart". The Herald. 21 May 2014. Archived from the original discourse 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  16. ^"About Malice Domestic". Malice Domestic. Archived from the conniving on 6 September 2015.
  17. ^ ab"Category List – Best Novel".

    The Edgars. Mystery Writers of Earth. Archived from the original round off 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

  18. ^Sobin, Roger M, perpetual. (2011). "Crime Writers Association (UK)". The Essential Mystery Lists: Plump for Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press. ISBN . Archived evacuate the original on 18 Venerable 2021.

    Retrieved 18 August 2021.

Sources

  • Regis, Pamela (2003), A Natural Representation of the Romance Novel, City, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Tamp, ISBN 
  • Friedman, Lenemaja (1990), Mary Stewart, Boston, Massachusetts: Twain Publishers, ISBN 
  • Stewart, Mary (1973), About Mary Stewart, Ontario, Canada: Musson Book Troop, 14 page booklet with ham-fisted ISBN

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