Viola Bayley

Viola Bayley
Born Viola Clare Wingfield Powles
(1911-01-08)8 January 1911
Rye, England
Died January 1997(1997-01-00)
Rye, England
Occupation Novelist, teacher
Language English
Nationality English
Citizenship British
Genre Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy
Subject Children's literature

Viola Clare Bayley (8 January 1911 – January 1997) was a British children's writer of adventure stories.

Life

Viola Clare Wingfield Powles was born on 8 January 1911, in Rye, Sussex. Her parents were Isabel Grace Wingfield and Lewis Charles Powles. She was educated at Effingham House, Behnke Drama School, and Licenciate of the Guildhall School of Music.

In the winter of 1933 she visited her uncle, a high Court Judge, in Lahore in India. There she met Vernon Thomas Bayley (C.M.G., O.B.E.) of the Indian Police and got engaged. She returned to England to be married and subsequently returned to Hangu in India with her husband in 1934. In 1935 they moved to Delhi. Over the years frequent trips to places such as Simla and Gulmarg took place. After the war, they returned to England in 1946.

Two sons, two daughters.

1975/76: short memoir of the first year in India, and One Woman's Raj about her time in India .

Death: January 1997

Works

* date of first edition. Other dates of first edition not verified


Shorter stories in collections:

Turn of the tide in Collins Girl's Annual 1955
Walls of Snow in Collins Girl's Annual (1953 ?) 128 pages
... in Stirring Stories for Girls, 1960, Duthie, Eric. Editor
... in The Favourite Book for Girls
... in Girls' Story Omnibus
Walls of Snow in The Splendid Book for Girls (about 1956)


A number of these works were illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster

Other languages

A number of her works were translated into other languages

German

French

Dutch

Swedish

References

Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1963

Viola Bayley by Julie Makin

Viola Bayley, Rye Castle Museum

Sources

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