Category: Australasian authors
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Baker, Ivy
About the author Ivy Baker (b.1922) is an Australian author whose books reflect her background. She’s written on dingoes and sheep stations, as well as one horse book, If Wishes Were Horses (1984). Sources and linksAustlitEquitainment Finding the bookEasy to find. Bibliography (pony books only) if wishes were horses Angus & Robertson, New South Wales, 1984, 86…
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Baker, Donna
About the author Donna Baker is a pseudonym used by the author Lilian Harry. Lilian Harry was born and brought up in Gosport, Hampshire, where she grew up in a “decent working class environment” during the Second World War. After leaving school, she worked in the Civil Service, before marrying a sailor and starting a…
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Ashton, Janet
About the author Janet Ashton (b.1913) has, as far as I’m aware, written one book, Yattunga (1983). It’s set in New South Wales just after World War II. Finding the bookReasonably easy to find. Bibliography Yattunga Bilver BTY, 1983, illus Christine Alderton For Margaret, Christopher and Jane, the summer holidays mean the chance to ride their beloved…
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Anderson, Libby
About the author Libby Anderson, who now runs Teamwork Dressage in America with her daughter, was born and brought up in Australia. She started her equine career jumping and eventing, and then went to a show jumping clinic run by Franz Mairinger, then the Australian coach for show jumping, cross country and dressage and formerly…
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Aldridge, James
About the author James Aldridge (Harold Edward James Aldridge, 1918–2015) was born in Australia, and lived in London. He was a journalist and war correspondent before he started writing full time. He wrote the well-received Quayle family sequence, set in a small town on the Murray River, and that, like most of his books, reflects…
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Bosworth, Ellen
About the author Ellen Bosworth was a pseudonym used by the actress and writer Enid Bosworth Lorimer (1887–1982). She was born in Kent, and studied drama before moving to Sydney in 1923 to take up a position as art director at the Star Theatre, Balmoral. Her career involved many moves back and forth between England…