Barbara Euphan Todd was a British writer. She was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire to Thomas and Alice Maud Mary (formerly Bentham), but was brought up in Hampshire, where she was educated at a girls' school. Todd began writing shortly after World War I and her work appeared in the magazines Punch and the Spectator. In the 1920s, she started writing books for children and collaborating with her husband Commander John Bower, RN, who she married in 1932.

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  • Barbara Euphan Todd was a British writer. She was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire to Thomas and Alice Maud Mary (formerly Bentham), but was brought up in Hampshire, where she was educated at a girls' school. Todd began writing shortly after World War I and her work appeared in the magazines Punch and the Spectator. In the 1920s, she started writing books for children and collaborating with her husband Commander John Bower, RN, who she married in 1932. In 1936, she wrote what would become her best known-work, Worzel Gummidge or The Scarecrow of Scatterbrook, the title character in the book was a scarecrow, that comes to life. She would later write nine other books featuring the character. After the death of her husband in World War II, she wrote Miss Ranskill Comes Home, about a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during the war, which was published in 1946. It was then republished in 2003 by Persephone Books.
  • Barbara Euphan Todd war eine britische Schriftstellerin. Sie besuchte eine Schule für Mädchen in Hampshire, ehe sie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg damit begann Kurzgeschichten für die britischen Magazine Punch und Spectator zu schreiben. Kurz darauf schrieb sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann John Bower, den sie 1932 heiratete, Kinderbücher. Ihr Mann fiel im Zweiten Weltkrieg. 1936 schrieb sie Worzel Gummidge und erreichte dadurch internationalen Erfolg und Bekanntheitsgrad; das Buch wurde später verfilmt und lief auch in Deutschland als 13teilige Serie. Ein weiteres bekanntes Werk war Miss Ranskill comes home, welches sie nach 1945 schrieb.
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  • Barbara Euphan Todd was a British writer. She was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire to Thomas and Alice Maud Mary (formerly Bentham), but was brought up in Hampshire, where she was educated at a girls' school. Todd began writing shortly after World War I and her work appeared in the magazines Punch and the Spectator. In the 1920s, she started writing books for children and collaborating with her husband Commander John Bower, RN, who she married in 1932.
  • Barbara Euphan Todd war eine britische Schriftstellerin. Sie besuchte eine Schule für Mädchen in Hampshire, ehe sie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg damit begann Kurzgeschichten für die britischen Magazine Punch und Spectator zu schreiben. Kurz darauf schrieb sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann John Bower, den sie 1932 heiratete, Kinderbücher. Ihr Mann fiel im Zweiten Weltkrieg.
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