Barbara Euphan Todd

Barbara Euphan Todd

Barbara Euphan Todd (9 January 1890 - 2 February 1976) was a British writer. She began writing shortly after World War One and her work appeared in the magazines Punch and the Spectator. In the 1920s, she started writing books for children and collaborating with her husband Commander John Bower, RN, who she married in 1932. In 1936, she wrote what would become her best known-work, "Worzel Gummidge" or "The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook", the title character in the book was a scarecrow, that comes to life. She would later write nine other books featuring the character. After the death of her husband in World War Two, she wrote "Miss Ranskill Comes Home", about a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during the war, which was published in 1946.

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