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Constance Savery

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born

October 31, 1897 in Froxfield, Wiltshire, The United Kingdom

died

March 02, 1999

gender

female

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Born in 1897, in All Saints' Vicarage in Froxfield, Wiltshire, Constance Winifred Savery was the daughter of the Rev. John Manly Savery, and his wife, Constance Eleanor Harbord Savery. The family moved to Birmingham when she was nine years old, and Savery was educated there, at King Edward VI High School for Girls. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied English, and was in the first cohort of woman students to be granted degrees, in 1920. She earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education from Birmingham University, and M.A. from Oxford in 1927, and taught briefly (and unhappily), before her mother's death necessitated a return to her father's household in Middleton-cum-Fordley, Suffolk, where she helped him wit...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 228 ratings · 34 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Enemy Brothers 4.49 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1944	My rating:
	The Reb and the Redcoats 4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1961	My rating:
	Emeralds for the King by Constance Savery, Victor Dowling (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1945	My rating:
	Dark House on the Moss 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Good Ship "Red Lily" 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1944	My rating:
	Magic in My Shoes by Constance Savery, Christine Price (Illustrator) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1958	My rating:
	God's Arctic Adventurer: The Story of William Bompas 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pippin's House, an East Anglian story 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1931	My rating:
	Thistledown Tony 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1957	My rating:
	Young Elizabeth Green 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1975	My rating:

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“Tony flung himself into his brother's arms and felt them close round him tight. "Hold me so I can't get away!" he said, and found himself queerly rejoicing in the steely strength of those scarred wrists.”
― Constance Savery, Enemy Brothers

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“I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood”
― Constance Savery

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