The scraperboard illustrations of Joan Kiddell-Monroe greatly enhance these two series.Ī number of books experimented with the paranormal and time-slip, and can be compared with many modern books revisiting supernatural themes. The Warner family series followed (1947–52), featuring pheasants, ponies and country life. His first series for children (1942-46) featured "Crusoe" Robinson, who was befriended by youngsters in holiday adventures, many featuring a Romany group. Severn attended Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire from 1933–36, and worked for the League of Nations Secretariat, Geneva (1938), Unwin Brothers (printers), 1939, Blackwells (1940) and George Allen & Unwin (1941-43), having been declared medically unfit for the armed services. He was the son of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin, of whom Severn wrote a biography in 1982, Fifty Years with Father. David Severn was a pseudonym for David Storr Unwin, a British writer.
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