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Margot Pardoe (8 August 1902 – 5 January 1996) was a children's author whose career spanned over 20 years from the late 1930s to the early 1960s.〔Carpenter and Prichard, 88.〕 She wrote as M. Pardoe, and is best known for her Bunkle adventure series. Margot Pardoe published over 20 books, most of which were extremely popular as well as positively reviewed. The Times Literary Supplement characterised ''The Far Island'' as "realistic as well as charming"; some of her later books were featured on Children's Hour when the part of Bunkle was taken by a young Billie Whitelaw, under the supervision of producer Trevor Hill.〔Robertson, i, vi〕 ==Margot Pardoe's Life== Margot Pardoe's childhood provided her with many of the settings for her books: she was born in London, educated in Hertfordshire and Paris, and had holidays in the continent and remote locations in Britain.〔Robertson, iii〕 She married John Swift in 1934 and settled in Somerset where she began ''The Far Island''.〔 She wrote under her maiden name but only used her first initial, possibly because she had been teased at school about her rhyming name, and possibly because her publisher thought it might help the books appeal to both sexes.〔Robertson, iv〕 Pardoe and her husband set up a country house hotel called Crossacres which became extremely successful; their only child Philip was born there in 1939.〔Robertson, v〕 They were forced to sell in 1947, however, when Pardoe almost died from a bout of double pneumonia.〔Robertson, vi〕 During this illness she began to lose her hearing and from her mid-40s was profoundly deaf. In the 1950s they lived with Pardoe's elderly parents in Hampshire.〔 She carried on writing, but her success began to wane at the end of the 1950s, with stories about comfortable middle-class families becoming less popular.〔Robertson, viii〕 ''Bunkle Brings It Off'' was her last book in 1961. John Swift died in 1984; Pardoe lived in Norfolk until 1986 when a fall forced her into a nursing home. She lived there until her death in 1996.〔 A short article about her was published in the Summer 2004 issue of This England magazine. 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「Margot Pardoe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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