Diana-Ross.co.uk
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Diana Ross UK children's author : Little Red Engine (1942)
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Diana Ross
A well-loved and influential children's writer in the nineteen forties, fifties and sixties. Many of her stories were originally written for the BBC and were also broadcast in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. She illustrated many of her fairy stories herself under the name of GRI.
She is probably best known for her Little Red Engine stories. The first of these, The Little Red Engine gets a Name, illustrated by Jan Lewitt and George Him, was published in 1942. Subsequent stories, such as The Story of the Little Red Engine (1945) , were illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Diana Patience Beverley Ross. British. Born Valletta Malta 8 July 1910 and baptised on board her father's ship HMS Diana by the ship's chaplain. Educated at : Kensington High School, London; Girton College Cambridge, B.A. (honours) in history 1932; Central School of Art London 1933-35. Married the photographer and interior designer Anthony Denney in 1940 (divorced 1950) Twin daughters and one son. Variously art teacher and children's author and often illustrator of her own work under the name of GRI. Pioneer contributor to children's radio and television. Died 4 May 2000 at home in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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- Dr A. F. Anderson
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