The rebel

by Hester Burton, Victor G. Ambrus (Illustrator)

Disillusioned by the French Revolution, an idealistic eighteenth-century English student searches for a new cause through which to express his love of freedom.

136 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Hester Wood-Hill was born on the 6th December, 1913 at Beccles in Suffolk.. She attended Headington School Oxford between 1925 and 1931 and then Oxford University between 1932 and 1936 when she received a honours degree in English. In 1937 she married Reginad W.B. Burton and had three daughters. For a while she was a part-time grammar school teacher and the Assistant Editor of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia.

Between 1960 and 1981 she produced eighteen books for children, most of them for the Oxford University Press and many of them illustrated by the incomparable Victor Ambrus. In 1963 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature for her story “Time of Trial”. Hester Burton died in 2000.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

giving it four stars, not because I particularly loved it, but because any book about the French revolution (which I try to avoid, though not as strongly as I try to avoid the English and US civil wars) that held my interest must be very good.

[Doodles McC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disillusioned by the French Revolution, an idealistic eighteenth-century English student searches for a new cause through which to express his love of freedom.

[scarlettraces · Rating 4 out of 5]

(3.5) felt somewhat perfunctory. this is probably partly due to its brevity, but it felt a little like an idea in search of a book. Catherine was also cruelly underwritten.