Mollie Hunter (1922–2012)
Auteur van A Stranger Came Ashore
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Mollie Hunter was born in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland on June 30, 1922. At the age of 14, she got a job at a flower shop in Edinburgh and educated herself by studying in the National Library. Most of her children's books were based on Scottish history and legends. Her works include A Sound toon meer of Chariots, The Kelpie's Pearls, The Thirteenth Member, and The Lothian Run. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1975 for The Stronghold. She died on July 31, 2012 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: scotsman.com
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A Sound of Chariots- 1 exemplaar
Cat, Herself 1 exemplaar
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- McIlwraith, Maureen Mollie Hunter McVeigh
- Geboortedatum
- 1922-06-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2012-07-31
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Opleiding
- Preston Lodge School, East Lothian, Scotland
- Beroepen
- novelist
author
teacher(creative writing)
children's book author
fantasy writer
Playwright - Organisaties
- Society of Authors (past chairman, Society of Authors in Scotland)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1975)
Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year citations, for The Ferlie, 1968, The Walking Stones, 1970, The Thirteenth Member, 1971, A Sound of Chariots and The Haunted Mountain, both 1972, The Stronghold, 1974, A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975, Talent Is Not Enough, 1976, A Furl of Fairy Wind, 1977, and Cat, Herself, 1987; Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival honor book citation, 1970, for The Lothian Run; New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citations, for The Haunted Mountain and A Sound of Chariots, both 1972, and A Stranger Came Ashore, 1975; Children's Book Award from the Child Study Association of America, 1973, for A Sound of Chariots; Scottish Arts Council Award, 1973, for The Haunted Mountain; Silver Pencil Award (Holland ∙ Holland) - Korte biografie
- Mollie Hunter was born and raised near Edinburgh, Scotland, and married Thomas McIwraith in 1940. She made her debut as a writer with the novel Patrick Kentigern Keenan, published in 1963 in the UK and released in the USA as The Smartest Man in Ireland. She went on lecture tours of the USA in 1975 and New Zealand in 1976. She served as a writer-in-residence at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and also taught creative writing at the Aberlour Summer School. In addition to her more than 25 novels and plays for children and adults, she also produced nonfiction works about writing, and wrote numerous articles and essays for newspapers and magazines. She's considered one of the most popular and influential 20th-century Scottish fiction writers.
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Set in 1854, the story is narrated from the viewpoint of a 15 year old boy, Connal Ross, who at first is excited by the preparations to watch for the arrival of officials to serve the eviction notice although he is also trepidatious after an old man, Blind John, has visions of seeing violence done to Connal's mother and his sister Katrine. Connal retrieves an old pistol from hiding in the thatched roof of his house where it has been kept since their great grandfather's escape at Culloden. At first, there is hope because the agent who has to sign the eviction notices swears in writing that he will not be a party to signing them, but officials soon arrive with notices (which the people cannot open or they will be deemed to have accepted service of the notices).
The first pair are turned back good naturedly, as the community has determined on a path of passive resistance with the women taking the lead, in the erroneous belief that violence will not be offered against unarmed women and girls. But when two drunken officials turn up and one of them, McCraig, holds a pistol to the head of Connal's mother, Connal uses his old pistol to force McCraig to back down, and from then on things turn ugly, with the story given out that the highlanders have 'rioted'. After that, they are fair game for vicious reprisals to be taken against them, and Hunter does not spare her readership from some of what that entails.
From then on, Connal becomes a fugitive, and he and Katrine have to try to free their mother who has been jailed as a scapegoat as Connal cannot be found, and to avoid the vindictive McCraig who hounds them even as they attempt to board a ship to America after her trial.
It is a fast paced story from the young man's viewpoint, told in flashback as he writes his account for a lowlander Scottish doctor who at first views the Highlanders as savages who got what they deserved, but who comes to respect them by the end.… (meer)