Joan Aiken

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Joan Aiken (Sept. 24, 1924 - Jan. 4, 2004) was an English fantasy, alternate history, and horror writer, both for adults and children.

Works

Wolves Chronicles / Wolves of Willoughby Chase (alternate history)

• The Whispering Mountain (1968) a prequel to the series
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963) (initially titled Bonnie Green)
• Black Hearts in Battersea (1964)
• Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966)
• The Stolen Lake (1981)
• Limbo Lodge (UK title) (1999) (published in the US as Dangerous Games)
• The Cuckoo Tree (1971)
• Dido and Pa (1986)
• Is (UK title; American title: Is Underground) (1992)
• Cold Shoulder Road (1995)
• Midwinter Nightingale (2003)
• The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005)

Arabel and Mortimer series

Jane Austen series

Notable characters

Wolves Chronicles

• Miss Letitia Slighcarp (villainess governess in Wolves Chronicles)
• Bonnie Green
• Sylvia Green
• Simon the gooseboy

Further reading

• Scholarship and criticism on Joan Aiken
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (film) (1989)

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