British Women Fantasy Writers Panel Reading List

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Or at least, what I can remember of it. Please let me know if you were there and we talked about someone else.

Authors and works mentioned during British Women Fantasy Writers Panel at CONvergence

E. Nesbitt, The Five Children and It, The Enchanted Castle, assorted works,
Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Are All the Giants Dead?
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Blackhearts in Battersea, assorted works
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising series
Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
Liz Williams, “At the Banquet of the Lords of the Night,” The Poison Master, Inspector Chen series
Gwyneth Jones, White Queen, Divine Endurance
Naomi Mitchison , Memoirs of a Space Woman, Travel Light, The Castle Perilous
Christina Georgina Rosetti, Goblin Market, Speaking Likenesses
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Sara Coleridge, Phantasmion
Kari Sperring, The Grass King’s Concubine
Tanith Lee, Death’s Master, The Dragon Hoard, Volhavaar
Angela Carter, “Wolf-Alice,” “The Were Wolf”
Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, other Merlin books
Lucy Boston, Green Knowe series
Jessica Rydill, Children of the Shaman
Phillippa Pearce,Tom's Midnight Garden
Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls, The Walking Stones, A Stranger Came Ashore
Mrs. Ewing,The Brownies
Mrs. Molesworth, The Cuckoo Clock, The Tapestry Room
Anne Lyle, Freda Warrington, Mary Gentle, Jo Walton, J.K. Rowling, Elizabeth Bowen

A couple of American writers who came in for commentary included Edward Eager (Half Magic, etc.) and Evangeline Walton (Island of the Mighty/The Virgin & The Swine, Song of Rhiannon, etc.).

 Katherine Briggs as folklorist, Hobberdy Dick, and An Encyclopedia of Fairies, A Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Language in 4 volumes and The Vanishing People.