22 Facts About Constance Savery

Constance Winifred Savery was a British writer of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles.

Constance Savery was selected for the initial issue of the long-running series entitled The Junior Book of Authors and for the first, 1971, volume of Anne Commire's Something About the Author, which reached volume 320 in 2018.

Constance Savery remained active to the end of a long life, completing a handwritten, 692-page revision of an unpublished manuscript just prior to her ninety-ninth birthday.

Constance Savery was born on 31 October 1897, the first of the five daughters of John Manly Constance Savery, who was vicar of All Saints Church, Froxfield, Wiltshire.

Since her mother's name was Constance Savery, she was Winifred everywhere except on the title pages of her books.

In 1907 the family moved to Birmingham, where Constance Savery would attend the King Edward VI High School for Girls.

Constance Savery entered Somerville College at the University of Oxford in 1917 and graduated in 1920 with Second Class Honours in English.

Limited mobility kept both sisters at home, where Constance Savery wrote unpublished novels for Doreen during her terminal illness.

Handicapped by arthritis and partial blindness, Constance Savery continued to write, although her Christian novels no longer found publishers.

In 1995, the University of Oxford celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the awarding of degrees to women, and Constance Savery attended as a guest of honour.

Constance Savery was invited back to Oxford in May 1996 and in October 1997, just prior to her 100th birthday.

Constance Savery wrote seven services of song, short narratives with interspersed hymns furnished by the publisher.

Constance Savery herself attended King Edward's School, came from a sizable family that lived in St Mark's Vicarage, and commuted by rail.

Constance Savery declined, and the book was published in 1951 as she wrote it.

Constance Savery's were praised in the secular press for their characterizations and dialogue.

The most widely distributed of Constance Savery's books was Emma.

Constance Savery was identified only as Another Lady until the original book went out of print, but she was compensated by generous terms, excellent sales, and translations into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.

In 1918, Constance Savery had written a short story, The Wyverne Chronicles, about a missionary family in China.

Constance Savery completed her revision six weeks before her ninety-ninth birthday.

The book that Constance Savery considered her best, The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood, was privately printed after her death.

Large families were common when Constance Savery was born, and she had four sisters.

In other stories, such as Gilly's Tower, the twin plays no part, but he or she is mentioned, because Constance Savery wrote twins into her stories.