Mary Norton

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born

December 10, 1903 in Leighton Buzzard, The United Kingdom

died

August 29, 1992

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Children's Books

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Mary Norton (née Pearson) was an English children's author. She was the daughter of a physician, and was raised in a Georgian house at the end of the High Street in Leighton Buzzard. The house now consists of part of Leighton Middle School, known within the school as The Old House, and was reportedly the setting of her novel The Borrowers. She married Robert C. Norton in 1927 and had four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Her second husband was Lionel Boncey, who she married in 1970. She began working for the War Office in 1940 before the family moved temporarily to the United States.

She began writing while working for the British Purchasing Commission in New York during the Second World War. Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Be...more

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Books by Mary Norton

Average rating: 3.95 · 30211 ratings · 782 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1) by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrations), Joe Krush (Illustrations) 396 avg rating — 22464 ratings — published 1952 — 52 editions	My rating:
	The Borrowers Afield (The Borrowers #2) by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (Illustrator) 398 avg rating — 2380 ratings — published 1952 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Bedknob And Broomstick 389 avg rating — 1945 ratings — published 1943 — 30 editions	My rating:
	The Borrowers Afloat (The Borrowers #3) by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (Illustrator) 387 avg rating — 1352 ratings — published 1959 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Borrowers Aloft (The Borrowers #4) 386 avg rating — 856 ratings — published 1961 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Borrowers Avenged (The Borrowers #5) by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe & Beth Krush (Illustrator) 385 avg rating — 641 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Borrowers Aloft: Plus the short tale Poor Stainless by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (Illustrator) 397 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (illustrator) 423 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1966 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Are All the Giants Dead? by Mary Norton, Brian Froud (illustrator) 400 avg rating — 113 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Poor Stainless: A New Story about the Borrowers 354 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Mary Norton

The Borrowers (6 books)
by Mary Norton, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (illustrator)

396 avg rating — 27846 ratings

Quotes by Mary Norton

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

tags: adversity , curiosity , intellectual , wisdom

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