D.E. Stevenson

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D.E. Stevenson


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
November 18, 1892

Died
December 30, 1973

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Dorothy Emily Stevenson was a best-selling Scottish author. She published more than 40 romantic novels over a period of more than 40 years. Her father was a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson.

D.E. Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. Like E.F. Benson, Ann Bridge, O. Douglas or Dorothy L. Sayers (to name but a few) her books are funny, intensely readable, engaging and dependable.
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Average rating: 4.12 · 63,099 ratings · 7,687 reviews · 65 distinct worksSimilar authors
Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Bu...

4.12 avg rating — 13,513 ratings — published 1934 — 66 editions
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Miss Buncle Married (Miss B...

3.98 avg rating — 4,655 ratings — published 1936 — 50 editions
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Amberwell (Ayrton Family #1)

4.17 avg rating — 2,422 ratings — published 1955 — 29 editions
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The Two Mrs. Abbotts (Miss ...

3.90 avg rating — 2,511 ratings — published 1943 — 36 editions
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Vittoria Cottage (Dering Fa...

4.16 avg rating — 2,089 ratings — published 1949 — 34 editions
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The Four Graces (Miss Buncl...

4.01 avg rating — 1,898 ratings — published 1946 — 39 editions
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Anna and Her Daughters

4.22 avg rating — 1,670 ratings — published 1958 — 33 editions
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Shoulder the Sky (Dering Fa...

4.31 avg rating — 1,510 ratings — published 1951 — 34 editions
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Celia's House

4.03 avg rating — 1,564 ratings — published 1943 — 39 editions
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Music in the Hills (Dering ...

4.22 avg rating — 1,416 ratings — published 1950 — 35 editions
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Celia's House Listening Valley
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“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
D. E. Stevenson, Listening Valley

“...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.”
Dorothy Emily Stevenson, Listening Valley
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“In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.”
D E Stevenson

Polls

August 2025 New School Poll

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (1941), 253 pages
 
  40 votes, 25.8%

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972) 170 pages
 
  31 votes, 20.0%

 
  31 votes, 20.0%

Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934) 352 pages
 
  16 votes, 10.3%

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (1943) 256 pages
 
  15 votes, 9.7%

Manhatten Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925) 342 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.0%

The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson (1941) 478 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.2%

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