Joanna Cannan

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Joanna Cannan (1898-1961) was a writer of pony books and detective books, aimed primarily at children.

Youngest daughter of Oxford don Charles Cannan and Mary Wedderburn, also cousin of Gilbert Cannan, it is perhaps her children she is best known for, being mother to Josephine Pullein-Thompson, Diana Pullein-Thompson, Christine Pullein-Thompson and Denis Cannan. One of three daughters, she is the sister of the poet May Cannan and grandmother to Charlotte Pullein-Thompson, Phillip, Mark and Lucy. In addition she is a great grandmother to 8 children (Oliver, Daniel, Anna, Benjamin, Thomas and Hamish, Edwina and Maxwell).

Although born in Oxford, in 1918 she married Captain Harold J "Cappy" Pullein-Thompson. Although she became Joanna Cannan Pullein-Thompson, she only published as Joanna Cannan. As he was badly injured during the war, she was the main income for the family, producing a book every year until she died. After their marriage she moved to Wimbledon. Disapproving of traditional education, she encouraged her daughters to write. However she did impose a wide variety of strict house rules including "Don't talk horses at meals", a rule that was hard for her daughters to follow. Her picture is also in the National Portrait Gallery in London. She was one of three sisters.

As well as the books listed, she also contributed to a few magazines during her lifetime.

Contents

[edit] Books

[edit] Pony Books

  • A Pony for Jean (1936)
  • We Met Our Cousins (1937)
  • Another Pony for Jean (1938)
  • London Pride (1939)
  • More Ponies for Jean (1943)
  • They Bought Her A Pony (1944)
  • Hamish: The Story of a Shetland Pony (1944)
  • I Wrote A Pony Book (1950)
  • Gaze at the Moon (1957)

We Met Our Cousins was republished by Fidra Books in 2006 with a twenty page biography of the author by her daughter Josephine Pullein-Thompson. London Pride will follow in mid-2007

[edit] Detective novels

  • All is Discovered
  • And all I learned
  • And be a Villain
  • A Hand to Burn
  • Body In The Beck
  • Death at The Dog
  • Frightened Angels
  • The Hour of the Angel
  • Ithuriel's Hour
  • Little I Understood
  • Long Shadows
  • Murder Included
  • No walls of Jasper
  • Orphan of Mars
  • Poisonous Relations (later republished as A Taste of Murder)
  • Pray Do Not Venture
  • The Misty Valley
  • They Rang Up the Police

[edit] Other Books

  • High Table (non-fiction)
  • Oxfordshire (non-fiction)
  • Princes In The Land
  • The Vanguard Book of Ponies and Riding (co-writer)
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