Mrs a c osborn hann biography
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Locally born Mrs. Osborn Hann was a writer of children’s books from the 1920s for many years until the 1950s. It was a time when there were many writers of children’s and teenagers’ stories and reading among the young was very popular.
Thinking about my earliest story books there was one by Mrs Hann and it is still in my book case.
Many stories painted rather glamorous pictures about well-off families living in fairly palatial houses and going to select schools.
Mrs a c osborn hann biography
On the other hand Mrs. Osborn Hann chose the opposite end of society, with rather hard-up families living in small terraced houses and going to the local council school. She made no attempt at glamorising life and her descriptions were enhanced and direct.
The stories, written round her own life experience, seemed almost autobiographical.
She was the wife of a vicar, Rev. Archie Osborn Hann. When they married in 1911, he was a curate at St. Paul’s Church, Lorrimore Square, Camberwell.
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