• Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature...
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    realist and weird fiction, and a cataloguer for numismatic studies. Gillian Avery: "Keary, Anna Maria...", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford:...
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    family pronounced the name "Peppis", not "Peeps", like the diarist. Gillian Avery: Introduction. In: The Journal of Emily Pepys (London: Prospect Books...
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  • player Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian film director Gillian Avery (1926–2016), British children's novelist and literary historian Gillian Ayres...
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  • Commended 1957 William Mayne A Grass Rope Oxford University Press Winner Gillian Avery The Warden's Niece Commended Anne Barrett Sogberd's Grove Commended...
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    elephants in Europe List of individual elephants The Elephant War (1960) by Gillian Avery is a historical novel featuring the protest movement based in Oxford...
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  • serious attention, British children's novelist and literary historian Gillian Avery noted the series was "invariably structured around oppositions" in that...
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  • of German Studies Gillian Avery, British children's writer and scholar Harold Avery, British author of children's literature Tom Avery, explorer, mountaineer...
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  • Nebula Frank Yerby – Fairoaks Mabel Esther Allan – Ballet for Drina Gillian Avery – The Warden's Niece Rev. W. Awdry – The Eight Famous Engines (twelfth...
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  • 23 (4). Article 2. Brogan, Hugh (1990). "Tolkien's Great War". In Gillian Avery (ed.). Children and their books: a celebration of the work of Iona and...
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  • Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015. Gillian Avery and Briggs, Julia (editors), (1989). Children and Their Books: A Celebration...
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  • Part 1 - Maria Escapes Gillian Avery Geraldine McEwan 20-May-68 558 The Warden's Niece: Part 2 - Truth or Dare Gillian Avery Geraldine McEwan 21-May-68...
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  • Fellow at Balliol College from 1950 to 1954. He met his wife, author Gillian Avery, in 1951 when they were both in Oxford. They married in 1952 at the...
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  • – The Cat Club, The Fire Cat Gillian Avery (1926–2016) – The Warden's Niece, The Elephant War, A Likely Lad Harold Avery (1869–1943) – The Triple Alliance...
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  • army officer and author. Jalal Aliyev, 87, Azerbaijani politician. Gillian Avery, 89, British children's novelist and historian. Mere Broughton, 79,...
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  • 1950), children's fiction Jane Austen (1775–1817), Pride and Prejudice Gillian Avery (1926–2016), children's fiction Tash Aw (born 1973) Robert Bage (1728–1801)...
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  • Esther Averill (1902–1992, US, ch) Gillian Avery (1926–2016, England, f/nf) Harold Avery (1867–1943, England, ch) James Avery (1945–2013, US, p) Avi (born 1937...
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  • on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2008. The Elephant War (1960) by Gillian Avery is a historical novel featuring the protest movement based in Oxford...
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    Creator". The Observer. Brogan, Hugh (1989). "Tolkien's Great War". In Gillian Avery; Julia Briggs (eds.). Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the...
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  • Winner 1971 John Christopher The Guardians Hamish Hamilton Winner 1972 Gillian Avery A Likely Lad Collins Winner 1973 Richard Adams Watership Down Rex Collings...
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    of Julie's letters and drawings about Canada. A biography of her by Gillian Avery appeared in 1961. Roger Lancelyn Green calls Ewing's works the "first...
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  • 89, actor (Othello, The Pianist, The Three Musketeers). 31 January Gillian Avery, 89, children's novelist and historian. Sir Terry Wogan, 77, broadcaster...
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    Shondrella Dupre Avery is an American actress, model and comedian. Her film roles include as LaFawnduh Lucas-Dynamite in the independent comedy Napoleon...
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  • His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories Jack of Shadows Gillian Avery – A Likely Lad Jack Bickham – The Apple Dumpling Gang Virginia Hamilton...
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  • Author Title Year released Publisher, notes Gillian Avery Echo dawnych lat. Wspomnienia z młodości w okresie regencji i panowania królowej Wiktorii (The...
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    14-year-old girl, later Dee Cooper, who instigated its publication. As Gillian Avery points out in her introduction, it is all the more interesting and informative...
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    in Great Expectations (1860–1861). The children's literature scholar Gillian Avery has argued that The Fairchild Family was "as much a part of English...
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  • Mixed Blessings; Financial Times Magazine, 21/22 July 2007 (page 22) Gillian Avery, ‘Ottley, Alice (1840–1912)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    Notes Pronounced "peppis", not "peeps" in this branch of the family. Gillian Avery: Introduction. In: The Journal of Emily Pepys (London: Prospect Books...
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  • 1958 Hester Burton, Her First Ball, Oxford University Press, 1959 Gillian Avery, In the Window Seat: A Collection of Victorian Stories, Oxford University...
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