Violet Needham (1876–1967)
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- Officiële naam
- Needham, Amy Violet
- Geboortedatum
- 1876-06-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1967-06-08
- Graflocatie
- St. James the Elder's Churchyard, Horton, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Mayfair, London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Horton, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Windsor, England, UK
Rome, Provincia di Roma, Lazio, Italië
Tylehurst Lodge, Forest Row, Sussex, England, UK
Horton, Gloucestershire, England, UK - Beroepen
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- Violet Needham was born in London to a British army officer on the fringes of the aristocracy and his Dutch wife, a wealthy heiress. Violet's father, who taught his daughters to ride and drive horses and to love poetry, was a compulsive gambler, and his family veered between affluence and relative poverty depending on his luck. According to the Violet Needham Society, "Perhaps it is little wonder that so many of Violet’s young heroines are rescued from precarious financial situations." When she was 19, she accompanied her father on a six-year posting as a military attaché to Rome. She learned to speak French, German, and Italian. She created adventurous bedtime stories for her nephews, which she eventually wrote down and submitted for publication, without success. In 1939, when she was 63, her first book, The Black Riders, was finally published; for the next 18 years she published a new children's novel each year. They were enormously popular in her lifetime and still have a devoted following. Many of the books were illustrated by Joyce Bruce, a Gloucestershire neighbor.
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Originally published in 1940, The Emerald Crown was the second in Violet Needham's Stormy Petrel series, in which young people have rousing adventures in a Ruritanian setting. The first book, The Black Riders was set in a fictional central European country known only as The Empire, and concerned the doings of one Dick Fauconbois; whereas this follow-up switches focus, moving to the kingdom of Flavonia, a small country on the border of the Empire. There are no shared characters between the two books, although I understand they come together in later installments of the series. In any case, this was an immensely engaging and entertaining follow-up to The Black Riders, which I greatly enjoyed, and which set a high bar. Needham has something of a cult following, and is considered the master of the Ruritanian romance for young readers. Reading these two books, it is not difficult to see why. I read the Girls Gone By reprint of this from 2005, and enjoyed the introduction by Hilary Clare, particularly the exploration of the significance of the Emerald Crown itself. I thought the parallels to Hungary's Crown of St. Stephen were fascinating, particularly as I had recently watched the second season of the television show Sisi, about the Austrian Empress Elisabeth, and there was an episode in which she and Count Andrássy recovered the lost crown. One of those happy cases of serendipity, in my reading and viewing life! In any case, I would strongly recommend this one to readers who enjoy Ruritanian tales. It is not necessary to have read The Black Riders first, I do not think, although one should read that earlier title before proceeding to the third in the series.… (meer)