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Margaret Storey is the author of several books for children. Neil Gaiman has cited her as an influence: "Margaret Storey is more or less out of print these days, alas. I loved her when I was about seven or eight, and am looking forward to finding out how much of her stuff has wound up in mine." 〔(Neil Gaiman's Journal )〕 Her work includes a series based on the adventures of two children, Timothy and Ellen, and a witch named Melinda Farbright: "the real thing - strange and magical, and above all, dangerous"〔 This series includes the following works: *''Timothy and Two Witches'' *''The Stone Wizard'' aka "The Stone Sorcerer" *''The Dragon's Sister and Timothy Travels'' *''A Quarrel of Witches'' *''The Sleeping Witch'' *''A War of Wizards'' (1976) *''The Double Wizard'' Her books for older children include *''Wrong Gear'' *''Keep Running'' *''Pauline'' *''The Mollyday Holiday''` ''Pauline'', about an orphan forced to live with uncomprehending relatives, has been described as "an astonishingly mature novel for a new writer".〔Marcus Crouch, ''The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel in England, 1945-1970'', Ernest Benn, 1972, p 212.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Storey (children's writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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