Vera Chapman

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Vera Chapman (1898-1996), also known as Vera Ivy May Chapman or, in the Tolkien Society, as Belladonna Took. She founded The Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of psudeo-historical and Arthurian books.

[edit] Life

She was born in Bournemouth on the 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Oxford where she was one of the first woman to matriculate as a full member of Oxford University. She founded the first Tolkien Society of which she was secretary. She persuaded J.R.R Tolkien to become the society's honourary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.

[edit] Bibliography

Novels

The Green Knight (1975) ISBN 0-901720-63-1/978-0-901720-63-4 (UK edition)

King Arthur's Daughter (1976) ISBN 0-86036-012-1/978-0-86036-012-4 (UK edition)

The King's Damsel (1976) ISBN 0-86036-018-0/978-0-86036-018-6 (UK edition) which the Warner Brothers animated movie Quest For Camelot is based off of.

Judy and Julia (1977) ISBN 0-86036-020-2/978-0-86036-020-9 (UK edition)

Blaedud the Birdman (1978) ISBN 0-86036-080-6/978-0-86036-080-3 (UK edition)

The Wife of Bath (1978) ISBN 0-86036-057-1/978-0-86036-057-5 (UK edition)

Miranty and the Alchemist (1983) ISBN 0-233-98042-3/978-0-233-98042-3 (UK edition)

The Enchantresses (1998) (with Mike Ashley) ISBN 0-575-06524-9/978-0-575-06524-6 (UK edition)

Omnibus

Three Damosels (1978) ISBN 0-575-06340-8/978-0-575-06340-2 (UK edition)

Collections

The Notorious Abbess (1993) ISBN 0-89733-387-X/978-0-89733-387-0 (USA edition)

Non fiction

Around Darlington in Old Photographs (1990) ISBN 0-86299-812-3/978-0-86299-812-7 (UK edition)

Croft, Hurworth, Neasham, Middleton And Dinsdale in Old Picture Postcards (1996)