Mary Stewart
Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001.
Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers, she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979). The first of these was turned into a children’s television series in 1991. During years she resided in Scotland, where she died on 9 May 2014.
Books
- Nine Coaches Waiting 1978
- The Crystal Cave 1974
- The Moon-Spinners 1975
- The Ivy Tree 1980
- This Rough Magic 1971
- Touch Not the Cat 1981
- Madam, Will You Talk? 1967
- Thornyhold 1988
- Thunder on the Right 1977
- The Hollow Hills 1978
- Airs Above the Ground 1975
- The Last Enchantment 1990
- The Gabriel Hounds 1972
- My Brother Michael 1973
- Rose Cottage 1994
- Wildfire at Midnight 1977
- Stormy Petrel 1991
- A Walk in Wolf Wood 1980
- The Wicked Day 1991
- Little Broomstick 1971
- Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy 1980
- The Prince and the Pilgrim 1995
- The Spell of Mary Stewart 1968
- Mary Stewart--four complete novels 1983