Hester Burton

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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    June 1987
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Hester Burton (6 December 1913 – 17 September 2000) was an English writer, mainly of historical fiction for children and young adults. She received the Carnegie Medal for her 1963 novel Time of Trial. Many of her books are set in her home county of Suffolk and many show a particular interest in the sea.

Burton was born Hester Wood-Hill in Beccles, Suffolk, on 6 December 1913. From 1925 to 1936 she was educated at Headington School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received an honours degree in English. In 1937, she married Reginald W.B. Burton, a Classics don at Oriel College.

She worked for the Oxford University Press from 1956 to 1964, contributing two volumes to the Oxford Sheldonian English Series for secondary schoolchildren and working as an assistant editor in the revision of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia.

Burton died in Oxford following a stroke at age 86, on 17 September 2000.

Book List in Order: 3 titles

  • Castors Away!

  • Time of Trial

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  • Five August Days



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