“We had such fun looking again through the boxes of papers before they went,” he said. William Streatfeild recently donated the author’s manuscripts and papers to Newcastle’s Seven Stories museum to ensure they would be well cared for and available to future readers and researchers. Virago is also republishing the author’s classic novels Caldicott Place and Apple Bough in July. The unpublished short stories were discovered after the author’s nephew William Streatfeild invited Donna Coonan, editorial director of Virago Modern Classics, to look through his aunt’s papers. Streatfeild’s final work, Meet the Maitlands, was published in 1978. According to her then publisher Penguin, when the author visited its Puffin exhibitions there would be queues “right out of the building and all the way down the Mall”. In 1938, the writer won one of the earliest Carnegie medals for The Circus Is Coming, in which two children join the circus following the death of their aunt.
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