Barbara Comyns

Barbara Comyns was born in England in 1909 and raised ina Warwickshire country house. She and her siblings werebrought up by governesses, and allowed to run wild. In herteens she attended art school in London. She wrote elevenbooks including Sisters by a River, Our Spoons Came fromWoolworths, The Vet's Daughter and Who Was Changedand Who Was Dead. To support her family she did a varietyof jobs over her life including dealing in antiques and vintagecars, renovating apartments, and breeding poodles. Shewas an accomplished painter, and exhibited with the LondonGroup. She died in 1992.