Occupation Novelist, teacher Name Viola Bayley Citizenship British | Nationality English Language English | |
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Born Viola Clare Wingfield Powles8 January 1911Rye, England ( 1911-01-08 ) Genre Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy | ||
Viola Clare Bayley (8 January 1911 – January 1997) was a British children's writer of adventure stories.
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Life
Viola Clare Wingfield Powles was born on 8 January 1911, in Rye, Sussex. Her parents were Isabel Grace Wingfield and Lewis Charles Powles. She was educated at Effingham House, Behnke Drama School, and Licenciate of the Guildhall School of Music.
In the winter of 1933 she visited her uncle, a high Court Judge, in Lahore in India. There she met Vernon Thomas Bayley (C.M.G., O.B.E.) of the Indian Police and got engaged. She returned to England to be married and subsequently returned to Hangu in India with her husband in 1934. In 1935 they moved to Delhi. Over the years frequent trips to places such as Simla and Gulmarg took place. After the war, they returned to England in 1946.
Two sons, two daughters.
1975/76: short memoir of the first year in India, and One Woman's Raj about her time in India [1].
Death: January 1997
Works
* date of first edition. Other dates of first edition not verified
Shorter stories in collections:
Turn of the tide in Collins Girl's Annual 1955
Walls of Snow in Collins Girl's Annual (1953 ?) 128 pages
... in Stirring Stories for Girls, 1960, Duthie, Eric. Editor
... in The Favourite Book for Girls
... in Girls' Story Omnibus
Walls of Snow in The Splendid Book for Girls (about 1956)
A number of these works were illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster
Other languages
A number of her works were translated into other languages
German
French
Dutch
Swedish