Dorothy Edwards
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For other persons named Dorothy Edwards, see Dorothy Edwards (disambiguation).
Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 1982) was a British children's writer.
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.
Edwards' most famous stories are of My Naughty Little Sister, which she dreamt up to keep her daughter quiet whilst on a family holiday in 1950. She wrote five books of these stories.
Edwards was part of the 1950s radio show Listen with Mother, and she also wrote for Playschool and Jackanory.
When Edwards died in 1982, she was buried next to her sister.
