Sheena Porter

Sheena Porter (born 1935) is a British children's novelist. She received the 1964 Carnegie Medal for Nordy Bank.^[1]

Sheena Porter has worked as a librarian in Leicester, Nottingham and Shropshire, and currently lives in Ludlow.

Her work is particularly notable for its atmosphere and characterization. It has a feeling for landscape, often portraying actual places, especially in the high country of the Welsh Marches, such as Nordy Bank, and the Long Mynd in The Knockers.^[2] She also weaves the history and folklore of the region into her narratives. ^[3]

Bibliography

The Bronze Chrysanthemum (1961)
Hills and Hollows (1962)
Jacobs' Ladder (1963)
Nordy Bank (1964)
The Knockers (1965)
Deerfold (1966)
The Scapegoat (1968)
The Valley of Carrig-Wen (1971)
The Hospital (1973)

References

^ Carnegie Living Archive
^ Marcus Crouch, The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England 1945-1970, Ernest Benn, 1972 pp 155-156
^ Literary Heritage: West Midlands

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