Constance Savery

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About Constance Savery

Constance Savery was a British writer of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles. She was selected for the initial issue of the long-running series entitled The Junior Book of Authors (1951–2008) and for the first, 1971, volume of Anne Commire's Something About the Author, which reached volume 320 in 2018. Savery's World War II novel, Enemy Brothers, received praise and remains in print. In 1980, at age eighty-two, she completed a Charlotte Brontë two-chapter fragment, which was published as "Emma by Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady". The book was translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.

Reared in a Wiltshire vicarage, Savery was prepared for university study at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Earning an Exhibition (scholarship) to Somerville College, Oxford, she read English, and in 1920 was in the first group of women to be awarded a degree by the University of Oxford. Seventy-five years later, she was honoured at Oxford as the last surviving member of that event. She remained active to the end of a long life, completing a handwritten, 692-page revision of an unpublished manuscript just prior to her ninety-ninth birthday.

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Constance Savery's Timeline

1897
October 31, 1897
Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
November 30, 1897
All Saints Church, Froxfield, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
1999
March 2, 1999
Age 101
Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom