Antonia Forest (May 26, 1915 - November 28, 2003) was the pseudonym of a British children's author who was christened Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein (although her real name was never made public until after her death) and grew up in Hampstead, London. Born of part Russian-Jewish and Irish parents, she was educated at South Hampstead High School and University College, London. May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Hampstead is a hilly and wealthy suburb of London. ... St. ... The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...

It could be said that she embraced the way of life of the upper middle classes of the English shires with the zeal of the convert. From 1938 until her death she lived in Bournemouth, and from 1947 onwards she was a devout Catholic; she would eventually sum herself up as "middle-aged, narrow-minded, anti-progressive AND PROUD OF IT". Most of her books are concerned with the Marlow family, an ancient landed family whose patriarch is a Navy commander, and whose six daughters (out of eight children in all) all go to Kingscote School for Girls, a boarding school where all the Marlow books with "Term" in the title are set. The complete list of modern-day Marlow books is: 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bournemouth is a seaside resort in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kingscote School for Girls is a fictional girls boarding school created by Antonia Forest, where four of her Marlow family books are set. ...

• Autumn Term (1948)
• The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)
• Falconer's Lure (1957)
• End of Term (1959)
• Peter's Room (1961)
• The Thuggery Affair (1965)
• The Ready-Made Family (1967)
• The Cricket Term (1974)
• The Attic Term (1976)
• Run Away Home (1982)

She also wrote "The Player's Boy" (1970) and "The Players and the Rebels" (1971), which concern themselves with the ancestors of the Marlows in Shakespeare's time, and an unrelated present-day (at the time) story, "The Thursday Kidnapping" (1963). 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Events January-February January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society during his State of the Union address. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Antonia Forest's later books are notable for their use of a technique perhaps taken to its ultimate extreme by Richmal Crompton in her 1965 story "William and the Pop Singers"; namely the placing of characters who were created in an earlier age, and still seem essentially tied to that past time, in a very different world several decades later. So the same characters who initially recount their childhood experiences of the London Blitz eventually watch "Up Pompeii" and, later still, make themselves up as punks, when they are only a few years older. The 1976 book "The Attic Term" is notable for its use of the teenage character Patrick Merrick to express the writer's personal opposition to changes in the Roman Catholic Church resulting from the Second Vatican Council. In reality, had he been the same age he was when he first appeared in a Marlow story, Patrick Merrick would have been middle-aged by 1976, and, perhaps, more likely to oppose such ideas than a teenager would have been. Richmal Crompton Lamburn (November 15, 1890–January 11, 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William short stories. ... // Events January-February January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society during his State of the Union address. ... The Blitz, a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, was the sustained and intensive bombing of Britain, particularly London, from September 7, 1940 through to May 1941 by the German Luftwaffe in World War II. Although the Blitz is named after Blitzkrieg, it was not an example of... Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of 1970. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Antonia Forest never completed the successor to "Run Away Home" and it is believed that she destroyed the manuscript before her death. After many years out of print, her books have recently been returning to the public eye with a Faber reprint of "Autumn Term" in 2000 followed by Girls Gone By reprints of "Falconer's Lure", "Run Away Home" and "The Marlows and the Traitor" during 2003, and "The Ready-Made Family" in 2004, with more to follow. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Links

• Collecting Antonia Forest Books