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Miss Read
English novelist
Dora Jessie SaintMBE (17 April 1913 – 7 April 2012),[1][2] née Shafe, best known by the pen nameMiss Read, was an English novelist and, by profession, a schoolmistress.
Her pseudonym was derived from her mother's maiden name.[3] She is best known for two series of novels set in the English countryside, the Fairacre novels and the Thrush Green novels.
Biography
Dora Jessie Shafe was born on 17 April 1913 in London, the younger of the daughters of Arthur Shafe, an insurance agent, and his wife Grace.
Miss read thrush green books in order
For the sake of her mother's health, the family moved to the country when Dora was seven, and she began school in Chelsfield, near Orpington, Kent,[4] and later joined her older sister at Bromley county school.
When her father became a schoolmaster, Dora followed his example and undertook teacher training at Homerton College, Cambridge.
From 1933 to 1940 she taught in Middlesex, first at Hayes and then at