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Verily Anderson


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 12, 1915

Died
July 16, 2010

Genre
Children's Books, Biographies & Memoirs


Born in 1915, Verily Bruce Anderson was the daughter of a clergyman (the Rev. Rosslyn Bruce), and was educated at Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham, and Normanhurst School, Sussex. She studied at the Royal College of Music, in London, and worked in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry from 1939 to 1941. In 1940, she married Captain Donald Anderson, and had five children - one son and four daughters. In addition to her children's books - most notably, the "Brownie" series - she wrote a number of volumes of autobiography, and worked for the BBC from 1946 through 2002. She died in 2010. ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 311 ratings · 57 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
Spam Tomorrow
4.14 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1956 — 9 editions
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The Northrepps Grandchildren
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Beware of Children
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Scrambled Egg for Christmas
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Vanload to Venice
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Daughters of Divinity
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Our Square
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“I found Erroll and Daphne in a little house on a ridge. Lorema was staying with them. The secure sight of the new baby in his cradle made everything I had seen and heard in London, and on the way here, seem like some fantasy in a film. Only the baby with his young mother and father was real and lasting.”
― Verily Anderson, Spam Tomorrow
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