Rhoda Power (1890–1957)
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Œuvres de Rhoda Power
From the Fury of the Northmen 5 exemplaires
How it happened : myths and folk-tales 3 exemplaires
Under the Bolsheviks Reign of Terror 2 exemplaires
More boys & girls of history 2 exemplaires
Das Märchenschloβ 1 exemplaire
The Kingsway histories book 3 1 exemplaire
The Maid Who Saved France - Joan of Arc 1 exemplaire
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- Autres noms
- Power, Rhoda Dolores le Poer
- Date de naissance
- 1890-05-29
- Date de décès
- 1957-03-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
USA
Rostov-on-Don, Russia - Études
- St Andrew's University
Oxford High School for Girls - Professions
- children's writer
broadcast journalist
scriptwriter
governess - Relations
- Power, Eileen (sister)
- Prix et distinctions
- MBE (1950)
- Courte biographie
- Rhoda Power was born in Altrincham (now part of Greater Manchester), England, a sister of historian Eileen Power and Beryl Power, who joined the civil service. The sisters were raised in Oxford by their maternal grandfather and aunts after their father was convicted of fraud and left his family, and their mother died of tuberculosis. Rhoda read modern languages and political economy at St. Andrews University in Scotland. After spending a year in the USA, she worked as a freelance journalist in several European countries. In 1917, she became governess to a family in Russia, where she was caught up in the October Revolution. She contracted an illness while in Russia that may have accounted for the chronic deafness that she suffered and which got worse after an operation in 1947. Rhoda Power started writing history books for children in the 1920s with her sister Eileen, and then independently. In 1927, she began a long successful career as a pioneering broadcaster of children's programs for the BBC. In 1950, she received an MBE for her work.
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- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 78
- Popularité
- #229,022
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1