CONSTANCE SAVERY, BORN 1897
AUTHOR
Constance Winifred Savery (31 October 1897 – 2 March 1999) was a British author of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles. Savery's World War II novel, Enemy Brothers, received praise and remains in print. In 1980, at age eighty-two, she completed a Charlotte Brontë two-chapter fragment, which was published as "Emma by Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady". The book was translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian. Reared in a Wiltshire vicarage, Savery attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Earning an Exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, she read English, and in 1920 was in the first group of women to be awarded a degree by the University of Oxford. Seventy-five years later, she was honoured at Oxford as the last surviving member of that event. She wrote all her life, and died at the age of 101.
Source: This life story was archived in 2021, with acknowedgement and thanks, from Eric Schonblom’s Constance Savery website at www.constancesavery.com.