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Elfrida Vipont
English children's writer (1902–1992)
Elfrida Vipont Brown (3 July 1902 – 14 March 1992)[1][2][3] was an English writer of children's literature.
She was born in Manchester into a family of Quakers.
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As a children's writer, she initially published under a man's name, Charles Vipont, which was a common marketing device by publishers at the time.[4] She later wrote as Elfrida Vipont, and after her marriage sometimes as E.
V. Foulds. She was also a schoolteacher and a prominent Quaker.
Early life
Born in Manchester on 3 July 1902,[1] Elfrida Brown was the youngest of the three children of Edward Vipont Brown (1863–1955), a general practitioner[5] and Dorothy Brown (née Crowley) (1874–1968).[6][1]
She was educated at Manchester High School for Girls and The Mount School, York, which were not unlike the "Chesterham High School" and "Heryot School" she portrayed in The Lark in