Pardoe, M
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1902-1996) UK author of several works for children, including the Argle sequence of Time Travel tales comprising Argle's Mist (1956; vt Curtain of Mist 1957), Argle's Causeway (1958) and Argle's Oracle (1959). The young protagonists, and their tutor, travel respectively to Britain in Celtic times and in Norman times, and finally to classical Greece. [JC]
Margot Mary Pardoe
born London: 8 August 1902
died Norfolk: 5 January 1996
works
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Argle
- Argle's Mist (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956) [Argle: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
- Curtain of Mist (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1956) [vt of the above: Argle: hb/Leslie Atkinson]
- Argle's Causeway (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958) [Argle: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
- Argle's Oracle (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959) [Argle: illus/hb/Leslie Atkinson]
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