Boston, Lucy

Boston, Lucy

▪ English author
née  Lucy Maria Wood 
born Dec. 10, 1892, Southport, Lancashire, Eng.
died May 25, 1990, Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire

      English writer whose 12th-century country home became the setting of her children's books.

      Boston left the University of Oxford after only two terms to train as a nurse; she worked at a military hospital in France during World War I and married Harold Boston, a cousin and flying corps officer, in 1917. The marriage ended after 18 years, and she left England to study painting in Austria. When the outbreak of World War II forced her to return to England, she purchased the Manor House (built c. 1120), near Cambridge.

      With her son Peter Boston, she slowly restored the decaying house and gardens with a passion that she likened to falling in love. In 1954 she published Yew Hall and The Children of Green Knowe, the first of six books set in a fictional version of Manor House; its successors included The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958), the Carnegie Medal-winning A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961), and The Stones of Green Knowe (1976). Her other works include The Sea Egg (1967), The House That Grew (1969), and two autobiographies, Memory in a House (1974) and Perverse and Foolish (1979).

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