Dorothy Edwards

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Dorothy Edwards


Born
in The United Kingdom
November 06, 1914

Genre
Children's Books



For the Welsh novelist see Dorothy Edwards

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Born as Dorothy Violet Ellen Brown into a working-class family, her father taught her to read at an early age, enabling her to write her first story at four years of age. Her stories, poems and articles were published throughout her twenties, and at this time she married her husband Frank Edwards and had two children, Jane and Frank.

Edwards' most famous stories are of My Naughty Little Sister, which she conceived to keep her daughter, Jane, quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. She wrote five books of these stories.

She also published several anthologies of short stories, folklore and poetry for children, chiefly on the subjects of magic, witchcraft and ghost ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 3,338 ratings · 246 reviews · 107 distinct works • Similar authors
My Naughty Little Sister (N...
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4.16 avg rating — 1,794 ratings — published 1952 — 30 editions
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My Naughty Little Sister an...
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When My Naughty Little Sist...
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4.09 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 1968 — 20 editions
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My Naughty Little Sister's ...
4.06 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1962 — 28 editions
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More Naughty Little Sister ...
3.99 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1970 — 21 editions
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The Complete My Naughty Lit...
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My Naughty Little Sister Co...
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The Witches and the Grinnygog
4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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My Naughty Little Sister: A...
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All about my naughty little...
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Series by Dorothy Edwards

My Naughty Little Sister More Naughty Little Sister ... My Naughty Little Sister an... When My Naughty Little Sist... My Naughty Little Sister's ...
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