VERA CHAPMAN

'Vera Chapman' (1898-1996), also known as 'Vera Ivy May Fogerty' or, in The Tolkien Society, as Belladonna Took. She founded The Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of psudeo-historical and Arthurian books.

Contents
Life
Bibliography
Novels
Omnibus
Collections
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Vera Chapman
Short stories
References

Life


She was born in Bournemouth, England on the 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Oxford where she was one of the first woman to matriculate as a full member of Oxford University. She founded the first Tolkien Society of which she was secretary. She persuaded J.R.R Tolkien to become the society's honorary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.

Bibliography


Novels


★ ''The Green Knight'' (1975) ISBN 0-901720-63-1/978-0-901720-63-4 (UK edition)

★ ''King Arthur's Daughter'' (1976) ISBN 0-86036-012-1/978-0-86036-012-4 (UK edition)

★ ''The King's Damsel'' (1976) ISBN 0-86036-018-0/978-0-86036-018-6 (UK edition) which the Warner Brothers animated movie Quest For Camelot is based on.

★ ''Judy and Julia'' (1977) ISBN 0-86036-020-2/978-0-86036-020-9 (UK edition)

★ ''Blaedud the Birdman'' (1978) ISBN 0-86036-080-6/978-0-86036-080-3 (UK edition)

★ ''The Wife of Bath'' (1978) ISBN 0-86036-057-1/978-0-86036-057-5 (UK edition)

★ ''Miranty and the Alchemist'' (1983) ISBN 0-233-98042-3/978-0-233-98042-3 (UK edition)

★ ''The Enchantresses'' (1998) (with Mike Ashley) ISBN 0-575-06524-9/978-0-575-06524-6 (UK edition)
Omnibus


★ ''Three Damosels'' (1978) ISBN 0-575-06340-8/978-0-575-06340-2 (UK edition)
Collections


★ ''The Notorious Abbess'' (1993) ISBN 0-89733-387-X/978-0-89733-387-0 (USA edition)
Non fiction


★ ''Around Darlington in Old Photographs'' (1990) ISBN 0-86299-812-3/978-0-86299-812-7 (UK edition)

★ ''Croft, Hurworth, Neasham, Middleton And Dinsdale in Old Picture Postcards'' (1996)
Anthologies containing stories by Vera Chapman


★ ''The Merlin Chronicles'' (1995) ISBN 1854873326
Short stories

"A Sword for Arthur" (1995)

References



Tolkien Society

Fantastic Fiction

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