Catherine Christian (1901–1985)
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Opere di Catherine Christian
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Mühlenkamp, Mamie (birth name)
- Altri nomi
- Gilmour, Patience (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1901-07-22
- Data di morte
- 1985-11-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Croydon High School
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
children's writer
historian
Girl Guide story author
guider - Organizzazioni
- Girl Guides
- Breve biografia
- Born in 1901 in Chelsea, London, as Mamie Mühlenkamp, Catherine Mary Christian was the daughter of businessman Christian John Mühlenkamp, and his wife, Catherine Harriett Ellett. The family was of German extraction, although they had been settled in England for some time before Mamie’s birth. They changed their name some time during the First World War, in order to avoid being identified as German. Mamie was educated at Croyden High School, and became involved, some time in the 1920s, in the Girl Guide Movement. She edited The Guide - the journal of the movement - from 1939-1945. Her friend and flatmate, Margaret (‘Peg’) Tennyson, edited The Guider during that same period, and published guide novels under the pseudonym "Carol Forrest" (sometimes erroneously attributed to Christian). After the war, Christian and Tennyson moved to Devon, where Christian was, for a time, Curator of the Salcombe National Trust Museum. The two were involved in the Guide International Service, and helped the former Polish Chief Guide run a home for war orphans. Christian died in 1985.
Christian's life-long interest in Guiding is apparent in her many children's books, which often feature Guides. In addition to her children's stories, she also wrote historical fiction and Arthurian fantasy for adults, and published four "Ranger" books under the pseudonym Patience Gilmour.
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- Opere
- 26
- Utenti
- 325
- Popolarità
- #72,884
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 8