Barbara Willard

Barbara Mary Willard (12 March 1909 – 18 February 1994) was a British novelist best known for children's historical fiction. Her "Mantlemass Chronicles" is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England. For one chronicle, ''The Iron Lily'' (1973), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by panel of British children's writers. Provided by Wikipedia