Lavinia Derwent
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Lavinia Derwent was the pen name of the Scottish author and broadcaster Elizabeth Dodd MBE (1909–1989).[1]
Life
She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot Hills, seven miles from Jedburgh and began making up stories about animals at an early age. She wrote a version of Greyfriars Bobby. Her autobiographical books include her Border and Manse series. Border Bairn is set around Jedburgh, while Lady of the Manse has a Berwickshire setting. Derwent's Manse books drew on her experiences keeping house for her Church of Scotland minister brother.[2][3]
Broadcasting
Derwent's first successes were her Tammy Troot stories, which were read out in the 1920s on Auntie Kathleen's Children's Hour on Scottish Radio.[4] The first of the books was published in 1947. They were still being reprinted in the 1970s, when Derwent, alternating with Molly Weir and Cliff Hanley, co-presented the series Teatime Tales on the STV (TV network), recalling stories taken from her own childhood.[1]
The Sula books
Derwent books about a fictional island called Sula later featured in BBC's Jackanory, read by John Cairney.[5] These were also made into a television series.
The original novels were: Sula,[6] Return to Sula,[7] The Boy From Sula[8] and Song of Sula.[9]
Bibliography
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- ”My Own Book of Birds” (1937)
- Tammy Troot (1947)
- Tammy Troot's Capers (1947)
- Huffy Puffy the little red engine (1951)
- Macpherson (1961)
- Further Adventures of Tammy Troot (1975)
- Sula (1969)
- Return to Sula (1971)
- The Boy from Sula (1973)
- Song of Sula (1976)
- Macpherson's Island (1970)
- Macpherson's Skyscraper (1978)
- A Breath of Border Air (1977)
- Another Breath of Border Air (1978)
- God Bless the Borders (1981)
- A Border Bairn (1980)
- Beyond the Borders (1989)
- The Tale of Greyfriars Bobby (1985)
- The Lady of the Manse (1985)
- A Mouse in the Manse (1987)
References
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- ↑ Moira Burgess: "Dodd, Elizabeth (pseud. Lavinia Derwent)", ODNB (Oxford, UK, 2005). Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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- 1909 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from the Scottish Borders
- Scottish children's writers
- Scottish television presenters
- Scottish women television presenters
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Scottish writers
- Writers from the Scottish Borders
- Scottish women writers
- Scottish novelists
- Scottish women novelists
- British women children's writers
- 20th-century Scottish women writers
- 20th-century Scottish novelists