Constance Savery (1897–1999)
Author of The Reb and the Redcoats
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Constance Savery was the "Another Lady" that completed Charlotte Bronte's unfinished novel titled "Emma" by Charlotte Bronte and Another Lady. Please do not combine with the Jane Austen novel Sanditon which was similarly finished by a different "Another Lady".
Image credit: This is a family portrait of the author painted when she was in her twenties.
Works by Constance Savery
The Strawberry Feast 4 copies
Peter of Yellow Gates 2 copies
Strawberry Feast 2 copies
Thistledown Tony 2 copies
Up a Winding Stair 2 copies
All Because of Sixpence 2 copies
Rebel Jacqueline 2 copies
In Apple Alley 2 copies
Moonshine in Candle Street 2 copies
Good Ship "Red Lily" 1 copy
Three Houses on Beverly Road 1 copy
Memoirs of Jack Chelwood 1 copy
Haggiston Hall 1 copy
The Boy from Brittany 1 copy
In Apple Valley 1 copy
The Golden Cap 1 copy
Four Lost Lambs 1 copy
Yellow Gates 1 copy
There Was a Key 1 copy
Sir Dominic's Scapegrace 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Savery, Constance
- Legal name
- Savery, Constance Winifred
- Other names
- Cloberry, Elizabeth (pseudonym)
Xavery, Frith (pseudonym)
Xavery, Eleanor (pseudonym)
Rycon (pseudonym)
Another Lady (for "Emma" with Charlotte Bronte)
Constanze Savery (Germany) - Birthdate
- 1897-10-31
- Date of death
- 1999-03-02
- Burial location
- St. John the Baptist Churchyard, Pitchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- England
UK - Places of residence
- Middleton, Suffolk, UK
Pitchcombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
Froxfield, Wiltshire, UK
Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk, UK
Dumbleton, Evesham, Worcester, UK - Education
- Oxford University (1920)
- Occupations
- novelist
children's book author - Relationships
- Savery, Christine (sister)
Savery, Doreen (sister) - Short biography
- The daughter of the Rev'd John Manly Savery and Constance Eleanor Harbord, Winifred grew up in rural Wiltshire. The family moved to Birmingham when Savery was nine, where she attended King Edward VI Hugh School for Girls. Earning an Exhibition (scholarship) to Somerville College, Oxford, Savery was a member of the first group to which Oxford granted degrees and graduated with Honours. She taught briefly, but returned to her father's home in Suffolk when her mother died. She wrote fifty books, either for children or about children, together with scores of short stories, articles, and poems. At the age of 98 she was honored at Oxford as the last surviving member of the group who had received those first degrees in 1920. She continued to write up to her 100th birthday despite being legally blind.
- Disambiguation notice
- Constance Savery was the "Another Lady" that completed Charlotte Bronte's unfinished novel titled "Emma" by Charlotte Bronte and Another Lady. Please do not combine with the Jane Austen novel Sanditon which was similarly finished by a different "Another Lady".
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- Works
- 68
- Also by
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- Members
- 1,018
- Popularity
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- Rating
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The novel begins when he arrives in England, while the authorities are trying to figure out what to do with the young prisoner (sending him back in the middle of the war is not practical because the UK maintains no diplomatic ties with Germany and any ship runs the risk of being torpedoed). Before he can be placed with a German family until the end of the war, a young British airman, Dym Ingleford, sees him and is convinced that Max is actually his brother Anthony, who was kidnapped years before. He presents enough evidence to convince the British authorities to place Max with his family. This is a family, however, that Max neither remembers nor acknowledges as his own. Despite his hostility, the Inglefords, starting with Dym, hope that with patience and understanding they will be able to recover the boy that they consider their lost relative.
The book was published in 1943, when the outcome of the war was still unknown. It gives an interesting depiction of what life in Britain was like during the Blitz. It's well-written, with a lot of sensitivity and empathy for Max's emotional turmoil, caught between two very different families and two countries at war. It is a book that I read in one sitting because I needed to find out what would happen, and a book that caused an emotional response in me with its depiction of brotherly love, initially one-sided.
I would recommend it both to children and to adult readers. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not better-known. It deserves to be a classic.… (more)