M.E. Atkinson

Mary Evelyn Atkinson (1899–1974), writing as M.E. Atkinson, was a prolific English children’s writer born in London. She was best known for her series on the Lockett family[1] - children's adventure stories typical of the 1940s and 1950s, and written from a middle class viewpoint. Her Fricka series was mostly about ponies, and was generally viewed as only middling quality for the genre. Although never in the first rank of children's writers, she was especially good at creating un-stereotyped and interesting characters.[2]

Atkinson's earlier works were better received critically than her later works.[3]

Bibliography

Lockett Series

Fricka Series

Other stories

One-act plays

References

  1. Watson, Victor (2013). Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 9781134588466. Retrieved 5 January 2015. Ransome ... Almost as important was the work of M. E. Atkinson's Lockett series.
  2. Dudley Edwards, Owen (2007). British Children's Fiction in the Second World War. Edinburgh UP. ISBN 978-0748616510.
  3. Bird, Hazel Sheeky (2014). "A very fuzzy set: defining camping and tramping fiction". Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children's Literature, 1918-1950. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 31. ISBN 9781137407436. Retrieved 5 January 2015.


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