In 1945 she sent the manuscript of The Glen Castle Mystery to her publisher, and this first book was published in 1948. Allan served in the Women's Land Army and taught at a crowded school in Liverpool. She published a few short stories in the 1930s, and had longer submissions accepted, but her activities were interrupted by the Second World War. Her eyesight was the reason she disliked school. It was such a taboo subject that she never discussed it with anyone until she was almost thirty, when it spontaneously improved. Her eyesight was poor, which her parents 'took.very badly and wrongly'. When the family moved, Allan was given a study in which to write. She decided to be an author at the age of eight her father bought her a writing desk and taught her how to type. Mabel Esther Allan was born at Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, then in Cheshire (now Merseyside). Mabel Esther Allan (11 February 1915– ) was a British author of about 170 children's books. Jean Estoril, Priscilla Hagon, Anne PilgrimĬhildren's novels: school stories, ballet storiesĭundonay House series, Wood Street series, Pine Street series, Crumble Lane series, Drina series
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