English children's writer and children's literature scholar
Gillian Avery
Born
Gillian Elise Avery 30 September 1926 Reigate, England
Died
31 January 2016 (aged 89)
Occupation
novelist and historian
Nationality
British
Education
Dunottar School
Notable awards
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1972)
Spouse
A. O. J. Cockshut (m. 1952)
Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972 for A Likely Lad.[1] It was adapted for television in 1990.[2]
^Cite error: The named reference relaunch was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature...
player Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian film director GillianAvery (1926–2016), British children's novelist and literary historian Gillian Ayres...
elephants in Europe List of individual elephants The Elephant War (1960) by GillianAvery is a historical novel featuring the protest movement based in Oxford...
serious attention, British children's novelist and literary historian GillianAvery noted the series was "invariably structured around oppositions" in that...
23 (4). Article 2. Brogan, Hugh (1990). "Tolkien's Great War". In GillianAvery (ed.). Children and their books: a celebration of the work of Iona and...
Part 1 - Maria Escapes GillianAvery Geraldine McEwan 20-May-68 558 The Warden's Niece: Part 2 - Truth or Dare GillianAvery Geraldine McEwan 21-May-68...
Shondrella Dupre Avery is an American actress, model and comedian. Her film roles include as LaFawnduh Lucas-Dynamite in the independent comedy Napoleon...
1950), children's fiction Jane Austen (1775–1817), Pride and Prejudice GillianAvery (1926–2016), children's fiction Tash Aw (born 1973) Robert Bage (1728–1801)...
realist and weird fiction, and a cataloguer for numismatic studies. GillianAvery: "Keary, Anna Maria...", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford:...
Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015. GillianAvery and Briggs, Julia (editors), (1989). Children and Their Books: A Celebration...
on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2008. The Elephant War (1960) by GillianAvery is a historical novel featuring the protest movement based in Oxford...
Mixed Blessings; Financial Times Magazine, 21/22 July 2007 (page 22) GillianAvery, ‘Ottley, Alice (1840–1912)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
89, actor (Othello, The Pianist, The Three Musketeers). 31 January GillianAvery, 89, children's novelist and historian. Sir Terry Wogan, 77, broadcaster...
14-year-old girl, later Dee Cooper, who instigated its publication. As GillianAvery points out in her introduction, it is all the more interesting and informative...
Waymarking. Pronounced "peppis", not "peeps" in this branch of the family. GillianAvery: Introduction. In: The Journal of Emily Pepys (London: Prospect Books...
of Julie's letters and drawings about Canada. A biography of her by GillianAvery appeared in 1961. Roger Lancelyn Green calls Ewing's works the "first...
in Great Expectations (1860–1861). The children's literature scholar GillianAvery has argued that The Fairchild Family was "as much a part of English...
ISBN 0-19-541889-1. Zipes, Jack, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt and GillianAvery, eds. The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature. New York: W.W....
dream to become a novelist at age of 19 Journal of Emily Pepys, ed. GillianAvery (London: Prospect Books, 1984) Juvenile Poems, Thomas Romney Robinson...
Nebula Frank Yerby – Fairoaks Mabel Esther Allan – Ballet for Drina GillianAvery – The Warden's Niece Rev. W. Awdry – The Eight Famous Engines (twelfth...
Global Information