Margery Lilian Edith Fisher (née Turner) 1913–1992 was a British literary critic and academic. She was internationally renowned for her influence in promoting the importance of good literature for children. This came about through her books, world lecture tours and her own notable journal Growing Point. Her papers for the period 1937–1992 are held in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California.[1] She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award.
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Margery Lilian Edith Fisher (née Turner) 1913–1992 was a British literary critic and academic. She was internationally renowned for her influence in promoting...
contrived and excessive use of humor, and the heavy-use of lessons. MargeryFisher in Growing Point, criticized the novel for being too derivative of Tolkien...
whose work was without literary merit. The children's literary critic MargeryFisher likened Blyton's books to "slow poison", and Jean E. Sutcliffe of the...
Captain Scott. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-0-340-82697-3. Fisher, Margery; Fisher, James (1957). Shackleton and the Antarctic. James Barrie Books...
Treece, C. S. Lewis and Beatrix Potter (Bodley Head Ltd, 1969) with MargeryFisher and Marcus Crouch C. S. Lewis: A Biography (1974) with Walter Hooper...
sketches and ... By Bernard Alger Drew p. 417 Growing Point Journal, MargeryFisher , collected editions, pp. 4287 - 4288 Authors and Artists for Young...
three high-school students' murder of their English teacher. Critic MargeryFisher noted Duncan's "unreserved" approach to writing the novel, in language...
York: Oxford University Press (Canadian Branch), 1969, pp. 256–264. MargeryFisher, Henry Treece in Three Bodley Head Monographs. London: Bodley Head,...
Children's Book Circle and sponsored by the Eleanor Farjeon Trust. 1966, MargeryFisher 1967, Jessica Jenkins 1968, Brian Alderson, author, compiler and editor...
back in time to the beginning of the world. Children's literary critic MargeryFisher reviewed Emma in Winter in her journal, Growing Point, writing that...
son of Thomas Stayner (b.1640), a painter and stainer, and his wife MargeryFisher (b.1643). He was apprenticed as a mason rather than a stainer - to Michael...
barrister, and Marie Corbett, a suffragist. Cicely and her older sister, Margery, were taught at home by their parents and another local woman. Both parents...
identity was such a predominant theme in the novel until she encountered MargeryFisher's comments on the book. She had a similar realization, this time on her...
1965) Boswell Taylor The Running Dog (University of London Press, 1965) MargeryFisher (ed.) Open the Door: an anthology of stories (University of London Press...
Leonard Everett Fisher (June 24, 1924 – March 2, 2024) was an American artist best known for illustrating children's books. From 1955 he illustrated about...
died without issue in his 84th year of age. His third wife Margery, daughter of John Fisher of Chilton Candover esquire, paid for his burial and monument...
was in her seventies, she was visited by the English mystic Margery Kempe. The Book of Margery Kempe, which is possibly the first autobiography to be written...
States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., APCO was founded in 1984 by Margery Kraus, who is now the firm's Executive Chairman. APCO focuses on handling...
daughters were Dame Margery Corbett Ashby, an international feminist campaigner and Liberal Parliamentary candidate, and Cicely Corbett Fisher, a suffragist...
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