Vera Chapman

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Vera Chapman (1898–1996), also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty, and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took, was an author and founder of the first Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian books. She held the title of Pendragon of The Order of Bard, Ovates & Druids from 1964 - 1991.

Life

She was born in Bournemouth, England on 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she was one of the first women 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 honorary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.

Bibliography

Novels

Omnibus

Collections

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)

Anthologies containing stories by Vera Chapman

Short stories

  • "Crusader Damosel" (1978) (in the anthology "Cosmic Knights", 1984)
  • "A Sword for Arthur" (1995)

References

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