The first story she could remember writing was Wild Sunrise, a story about a British chieftain faced with the invasion of the Romans. She was first a painter of miniatures, but in 1946 she to write, retelling the legends that her mother had told her as a young child. She was there for three years, passing the ‘City and Guilds’ General Art Course. In 1934 she enrolled at Bideford Art School in Devon (England). She did not learn to read until she was aged nine, when she and her mother returned to England. Severely disabled by Stills disease - a form of juvenile arthritis which led to many stays in hospital for painful remedial operations - she was educated at home by her mother who introduced her to Celtic and Saxon legends, as well as Icelandic sagas, fairy-tales and the work of Rudyard Kipling. She moved frequently, living in Streatham, London, Chatham Dockyard, Sheerness Dockyard and North Devon. When very young, her father - an officer in the Royal Navy - was transferred to Malta.
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