Mary E. Patchett (1897–1989)
Auteur de Ajax the Warrior
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: From the back of her book
Séries
Œuvres de Mary E. Patchett
Adam Troy, Astroman: The exciting story of how a great space-pilot saved the world from radiation beasts (1954) 2 exemplaires
Pferdejunge Todd 2 exemplaires
The saffron woman 2 exemplaires
L' enfant du désert 2 exemplaires
Unternehmen Mond 1 exemplaire
Tam mein Silberhengst. ( Ab 10 J.). 1 exemplaire
Grumpy, Come Home 1 exemplaire
Mein wilder Bruder 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 04: Just Around the Corner (1900) — Contributeur — 155 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Patchett, Mary E.
- Autres noms
- Patchett, M. E.
Patchett, Mary Elwyn
Bruce, David
Patchett, Mary Osborne Elwyn - Date de naissance
- 1897-12-02
- Date de décès
- 1989
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
- Professions
- journalist
- Courte biographie
- Patchett, an only child, grew up on a cattle station near Texas in Queensland, enabling her to portray Australian animals realistically in their natural habitat and set her stories authoritatively. After working for five years as a features journalist for the Sun group of newspapers, she left to work in England as a freelance writer in 1931, returning for holidays. Her first published book Ajax the Warrior (1953), originally broadcast in 1952 on the BBC Children's Hour, was largely autobiographical. She continued to write occasionally for the show over the years, with her stories appearing in children's publications such as the BBC Children's Hour Annual, Look and Learn, Chucklers Annual, and A Bumper Book of Girls' Stories (1978). Mysterious Pool appeared first as a short story in the magazine John Bull.
Patchett's varied interests were reflected in her writings. She can be considered one of the pioneers of Australian juvenile science fiction writing because she was inspired by the idea of space flight and a member of the British Interplanetary Society. Her activities on both sides of the theatrical curtain are reflected in Evening Star, and her ownership of a beauty salon at one stage informed The Lee Twins and Your Call Miss Gaynor.
With her works translated into Arabic, Finnish, Norwegian, German, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Swedish, Polish and Japanese, she was considered to be internationally the most widely read Australian children's author of the time. From http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A62499
Note: Date of death is probably 1989 (http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/pag...)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 57
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 333
- Popularité
- #71,381
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 46
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
Authentic, believable, well-written tale of the wilds of Australia, and those that survive there.