About the author
There doesn’t seem to be much information out there on this author. She might have been born in 1932: all I do know is that she wrote books with a Christian slant which were published both in Australia and London. Her first horse book, Jean’s Black Diamond, was written when she was fifteen. The book won second prize in the CSSM Literature Competition.
Finding the books
All are reasonably easy to find.
Sources and links
Thanks to Lisa Catz and Konstanze Allsopp for their help with the pictures and contents.
Bibliography (pony books only)
Jean’s Black Diamond: a Story of Australia
Children’s Special Service Mission, London, 1951
Set in inland Australia, this is the story of Jean, who meets and then masters a beautiful black mare. However, underlyng the happy family life on Brownley farm is a vital secret, the working out of which “shows how Christian virtues are worked out in everyday life.”
Son of Diamond: a Story of Australia
Children’s Special Service Mission, London, 1952
Susan’s Conquest
Children’s Special Service Mission, London, 1956, illus L F Lupton
Susan lives in Sydney, with her ill mother. Her father has left and moved to Canada. Susan is being sent to stay with her mother’s cousin, where she will be able to ride and paint. The three boys who live there, though, are hostile. Susan falls for a grey horse, Stardust, but isn’t allowed to ride him. She has to ride Derry. She manages to makes friends with some local girls, but still can’t forget the horse she isn’t allowed to ride: Stardust.
