Vera Chapman

Vera Chapman
Born	Vera Ivy May Fogerty (1898-05-08)8 May 1898 Bournemouth, England
Died	14 May 1996(1996-05-14) (aged 98) Croydon, England

Vera Chapman (8 May 1898 – 14 May 1996), also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty, and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took, was an author and founder of the Tolkien Society in the United Kingdom, and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian books. She held the title of Pendragon of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids from 1964 - 1991.

Life

She was born in Bournemouth, England on 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she was one of the first women to matriculate as a full member of Oxford University. She founded the Tolkien Society in Britain 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 Damosel (1976) ISBN 0-86036-018-0/978-0-86036-018-6 (UK edition) which the Warner Bros. 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 1-85487-332-6

Short stories

• "Crusader Damosel" (1978) (in the anthology Cosmic Knights, 1985)
• "A Sword for Arthur" (1995)

References

• Tolkien Society
• Fantastic Fiction
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