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message 1: by Capn (last edited Oct 11, 2022 01:46AM) (new)

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I was pretty sure there was already a thread for her, but I guess not.. :)

"Working name of UK writer Ruth Mabel Arthur Huggins, long active as a children's author, her career beginning with Friendly Stories (collection, 1932). Most of her early work, like the Brownie sequence -- The Crooked Brownie (1936), The Crooked Brownie in Town (1942) and The Crooked Brownie at the Seaside (1942) -- is for younger children, but with Dragon Summer (1962) and A Candle in her Room (1966) she began to write the haunting fantasy-tinged adolescent novels for which she became best known. Often featuring first-person narratives spanning multiple generations filled with echoes of centuries past."

Top of my list is (no surprise) the Switzerland-based story My Daughter, Nicola. It's usually just a little outside of my justifiable-purchase price, so I haven't acquired it yet. And, sadly, Ruth M. Arthur isn't well represented on OpenLibrary or InternetArchive, either.

A Candle in Her Room
The Autumn People
An Old Magic
Requiem for a Princess
The Saracen Lamp
The Whistling Boy
Portrait of Margarita
Dragon Summer
The Little Dark Thorn
Miss Ghost
A Cottage for Rosemary
The Daisy Cow, and Other Stories of the Channel Islands
Cowslip Mollie - this looks adorable!!!!!!
Friendly Stories
Pumpkin Pie: Tales for Children

Carolina has her own series:
Carolina and Roberto
Carolina's Holiday and Other Stories
Carolina and the Sea-Horse and Other Stories
Carolina's Golden Bird and Other Stories

And the Crooked Brownie series:
The Crooked Brownie
The Crooked Brownie At the Seaside
The Crooked Brownie in Town

After Candlemas and
On the Wasteland are available on OpenLibrary, however.


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