Lucy M. Boston

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Lucy Maria Boston (1892-1990) was a British author noted for her longevity; she did not have her first book published until she was over 60. She is best known for her Green Knowe books, inspired by her home The Manor, one of the oldest permanently inhabited houses in Britain (her books were illustrated by her son Peter Boston (1918- 1999). Born Lucy Wood in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at a girls' boarding school on the Sussex coast, she married Harold Boston in 1917, and moved to The Manor in the late 1930s, shortly after separating from her husband.

She also had a deep love of classical music, and she made a lot of patchwork, as well as being a keen gardener well into her nineties.

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[edit] Books

The Green Knowe series:

  • The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
  • The Chimneys of Green Knowe aka Treasure of Green Knowe (1958)
  • The River at Green Knowe (1959)
  • A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961)
  • An Enemy at Green Knowe (1964)
  • The Stones of Green Knowe (1976)

[edit] Other fictional works

  • Yew Hall (1954)
  • The Sea Egg (1967)
  • The Castle of Yew (1968)
  • Persephone aka Strongholds (1969)
  • The House That Grew (1969)
  • The Horned Man: Or, Whom Will You Send To Fetch Her Away (1970)
  • Nothing Said (1971)
  • The Guardians of the House (1974)
  • The Fossil Snake (1975)

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Memory in a House (1973)
  • Perverse and Foolish: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth (1979)

These two books were anthologised under the title Memories in 1992.

[edit] Short story

Lucy M. Boston also wrote a short story called "Curfew" which appeared in the anthology The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales, published in 1967.

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