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Gillian Elise Avery

ジリアン・エイヴリー

Jirian Eivuerī

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1926-09-30 （Reigate, Surrey）
Died
2016-01-31 （Oxford） age 89
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Reigate, Surrey → Manchester → Oxford

Career

Occupations
novelist, historian, journalist
Active Years
1957-2016
Affiliations
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Oxford University Press
Nominations
Carnegie Medal commended (The Warden's Niece, 1957), Carnegie Medal commended (The Greatest Gresham, 1962), Carnegie Medal commended (A Likely Lad, 1971)

Education

Dunottar School
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
1972
Work: A Likely Lad
Organization: The Guardian
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Warden's Niece

1957 Children's novel

Maria escapes her stifling boarding school to live with her great-uncle in Oxford, uncovering history from the English Civil War.

educationhistoryadventure

A Likely Lad

1971 Children's novel

A story set in Victorian England that won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

childhoodsociety
Adaptations
  • [Television] (1990)

Bibliography

  • The Warden's Niece (1957)
  • Trespassers at Charlcote (1958)
  • James Without Thomas (1959)
  • The Elephant War (1960)
  • To Tame a Sister (1961)
  • The Greatest Gresham (1962)
  • The Peacock House (1963)
  • The Italian Spring (1964)
  • Call of the Valley (1968)
  • A Likely Lad (1971)
  • Ellen's Birthday (1971)
  • Ellen and the Queen (1972)
  • Huck and her Time Machine (1977)
  • Mouldy's Orphan (1978)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
witty adventure storiesset in Victorian Englandscholarly interest in history
Recurring Motifs
children and elderseducationhistorical events

Legacy

British children's novelist and scholar of children's literature, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

Trivia

  • Married to literary scholar A. O. J. Cockshut.
  • Loved gardening on her allotments.