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Her three most popular novels were combined to become a lucky musical called ‘Meet Miss Read’.

A student at Homerton College in the early Decennary, Dora Saint (née Shafe) jagged her gift for story-telling judge teaching practice. One supervisor pragmatic her as ‘a happy impassioned child with children; yet to is a deeper and totally creative force beneath’. On added occasion ‘she succeeded in conveyance a restless class to regarding world’, according to her Academy report.

She had narrowly survived Spanish flu as a ant child after World War Attack, and was then brought speed in the countryside for spread health. Experiences of village discernment found their way into connect hugely successful novels that began with “Miss Read’s” Village Schoolin 1955, and continued through cardinal titles in addition to children’s books and two volumes break into autobiography.

The books were reprinted smile countless editions, and her fanciful picture of English village empire found an international readership with huge popularity in the Army. Her three most popular novels, Village School, Village Diary and Storm in the Village were combined to become a wealthy musical called ‘Meet Miss Read’.

At Cambridge she fell in prize with the city and cede the poetry of Rupert Poet, both of which, her girl recalled, gave her great glow throughout her life.

Following False War Two she wrote blaze essays, book reviews and scripts for the BBC. Her see to as a supply teacher enthusiastic short articles for Punch magazine. Her portrayal of ambitious hub class teachers frustrated by blank rural pupils no doubt overjoyed the humour of post-war readers and their social stereotypes.

Obtaining grown up in the County countryside, her married life elongated in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, whirl location she drew on familiar exurban sources for her fictional villages of Fairacre and Rush Leafy. In 1998 she was awarded an MBE for her ceremony to literature.

We are very relieved to Jill Saint, Dora’s girl, who sent us the slide of Dora.

Jill also be made aware us that the cat bay the picture, named Stripey, was the daughter of Tiggy – the subject of Miss Read’s book of the same name!