Joyce Reason was a British author of missionary biographies and historical fiction for young readers.
18 Facts About Joyce Reason
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Joyce Reason's father, Will Reason, was a Congregational minister who campaigned and wrote around themes of social justice and poverty.
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In 1900, the Joyce Reason family was living in the North London suburb of Friern Barnet.
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Joyce Reason was educated at Milton Mount College in Gravesend, Kent, an educational institution for the daughters of Congregational ministers, although other pupils could attend.
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Joyce Reason was a keen hiker and her article 'A Lone Woman's Hike from Glastonbury to Winchester' appeared in the first issue of the Hiker and Camper.
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Joyce Reason was considered an authority on the Kibbo Kift movement.
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Joyce Reason left the movement in the 1930s due to its politicisation to begin a new career as a writer.
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Joyce Reason was a prolific author of popular missionary biographies and accounts of the work of the London Missionary Society.
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Joyce Reason wrote missionary biographies of Mary Aldersey of China, James Chalmers of Papua, Albert Cook of Uganda, William Kendall Gale of Madagascar, Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador, James Hannington of Uganda, Griffith John of China, David Jones of Madagascar, Liang Fa of China, Henry Nott of the South Seas, Ruatoka of Papua, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, Howard Somervell of India, and others.
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Joyce Reason wrote popular biographies of John Bunyan, Robert Browne, Henry Barrowe, William Penn, Isobel Kuhn and Sadhu Sundar Singh of India.
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In September 1951, Joyce Reason joined the headquarters staff of the Leprosy Mission as Editorial Secretary for a five-year term.
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Joyce Reason visited Uganda and Tanganyika to write an account of the Mission's work in East Africa, and visited the Church of Scotland's leprosy settlement at Chogoria in Kenya.
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Joyce Reason was a noted advocate of Christian books and in 1950 was a featured speaker at the Christianity in Books Exhibition at Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, together with the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.
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Joyce Reason believed there was empirical evidence for the existence of the human soul.
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Joyce Reason was noted as an author of historical fiction for young people.
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Joyce Reason wrote Dwifa's Curse: A Tale of the Stone Age under the nom-de-plume "Blue Wolf".
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Joyce Reason produced a number of works for the Sunday School "rewards" market which are still occasionally reprinted.
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Joyce Reason was not married and for much of her life lived with her younger sister, the chemist and teacher Hazel Alden Reason, who was unmarried.