Cradock, Mrs. H.C. (1863–1941)
Cradock, Mrs. H.C. (1863–1941)
English children's writer. Name variations: Augusta Cradock; Mrs. Henry Cowper Cradock. Born Augusta Whiteford in 1863; grew up in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire; died Oct 15, 1941, in Dorking, England; dau. of an Anglican cleric; m. Henry Cowper Cradock (later vicar of Birstall, then Whitley Lower), 1893 (died 1933); children: A(line) M(ary) Cradock (b. 1905).
One of the most popular writers for young children between the wars, began career as a teacher in Wakefield, Yorkshire; wrote the "Josephine Stories," about a family of dolls, which were illustrated by Honor C. Appleton (the 1st book appeared in 1915); wrote her last book, Teddy Bear's Farm (1941).
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