- Vera Chapman
Vera Chapman (1898-1996), also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty or, in
The Tolkien Society , as Belladonna Took. She founded The Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of psudeo-historical and Arthurian books.Life
She was born in
Bournemouth ,England on the 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Oxford where she was one of the first woman to matriculate as a full member ofOxford University . She founded the first Tolkien Society of which she was secretary. She persuadedJ. R. R. Tolkien to become the society's honorary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.Bibliography
Novels
* "The Green Knight" (1975) ISBN 0-901720-63-1/978-0-901720-63-4 (UK edition)
* "King Arthur's Daughter " (1976) ISBN 0-86036-012-1/978-0-86036-012-4 (UK edition)
* "The King's Damsel " (1976) ISBN 0-86036-018-0/978-0-86036-018-6 (UK edition) which theWarner Bros. animated movieQuest For Camelot is based on.
* "Judy and Julia " (1977) ISBN 0-86036-020-2/978-0-86036-020-9 (UK edition)
* "Blaedud the Birdman " (1978) ISBN 0-86036-080-6/978-0-86036-080-3 (UK edition)
* "The Wife of Bath " (1978) ISBN 0-86036-057-1/978-0-86036-057-5 (UK edition)
* "Miranty and the Alchemist " (1983) ISBN 0-233-98042-3/978-0-233-98042-3 (UK edition)
* "The Enchantresses " (1998) (withMike Ashley ) ISBN 0-575-06524-9/978-0-575-06524-6 (UK edition)Omnibus
* "
Three Damosels " (1978) ISBN 0-575-06340-8/978-0-575-06340-2 (UK edition)Collections
* "
The Notorious Abbess " (1993) ISBN 0-89733-387-X/978-0-89733-387-0 (USA edition)Non fiction
* "
Around Darlington in Old Photographs " (1990) ISBN 0-86299-812-3/978-0-86299-812-7 (UK edition)
* "Croft, Hurworth, Neasham, Middleton And Dinsdale in Old Picture Postcards " (1996)Anthologies containing stories by Vera Chapman
* "
The Merlin Chronicles " (1995) ISBN 1854873326hort stories
*"
Crusader Damosel " (1978) (in the anthology "Cosmic Knights", 1984)
*"A Sword for Arthur " (1995)References
* [http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ts_info/folk/vera-chapman.html Tolkien Society]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/vera-chapman/ Fantastic Fiction]
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