1. Monica Edwards was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.
10 Facts About Monica Edwards
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Monica Edwards was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton.
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The young Monica Newton received a fragmentary formal education: she is known to have attended Wakefield Girls' High School between September 1920 and July 1921 and when the family were living at Rye Harbour she was sent to St Brandon's School, Bristol where she remained for just three months in 1928 before returning to Sussex.
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In November 1928 Monica Edwards witnessed the capsizing of the supposedly unsinkable Mary Stanford lifeboat in Rye Bay with the loss of all aboard.
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Monica Edwards knew all seventeen crew-members personally but was especially close to Charlie Southerden.
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Between 1947 and 1968 Bill and Monica Edwards gradually built up the near-derelict farm into a thriving dairy concern stocked exclusively with pedigree Jersey cattle.
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When she wrote Wish for a Pony Monica Edwards did not realize that finding an agent would be a necessary step to having the story published.
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Monica Edwards wanted to alter much of Wish for a Pony soon after it was published but Collins told her they would only publish her next story if Wish for a Pony remained as it was.
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Monica Edwards spent the next twenty years traveling, reading and studying natural history.
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Bill Edwards died in October 1990 and Monica died in January 1998.