JA
's parents were divorced while she was very young. Her father remarried the year she turned ten. Her mother married as her second husband Martin Armstrong
. He, too, was a writer: a novelist...
Intertextuality and Influence
Joan Aiken
At five JA
bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her...
Textual Production
Mary Webb
MW
's unfinished, final fiction, the historical novel, Armour Wherein He Trusted, was posthumously published one year after her death, with some short pieces.
