Mary Stewart
12 September 1916 – 9 May 2014
70 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001.
Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers, she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979). The first of these was turned into a children’s television series in 1991. During years she resided in Scotland, where she died on 9 May 2014.
Also published as: Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow Stewart, Mary Stewart, MARY STEWART, Mary STEWART, STEWART MARY
Most-read books
The Crystal Cave
4.3 · 1970 · 108 want to read
Nine Coaches Waiting
4.3 · 1958 · 102 want to read
The Moon-Spinners
4.5 · 1962 · 86 want to read
The Ivy Tree
4.5 · 1961 · 78 want to read
This Rough Magic
4.3 · 1964 · 75 want to read
Touch Not the Cat
4.4 · 1976 · 66 want to read
Madam, Will You Talk?
4.8 · 1954 · 63 want to read
Thornyhold
4.2 · 1988 · 60 want to read
Thunder on the Right
4 · 1957 · 48 want to read
The Hollow Hills
4.4 · 1973 · 46 want to read
Airs Above the Ground
5 · 1965 · 45 want to read
The Last Enchantment
4.3 · 1979 · 36 want to read
The Gabriel Hounds
4.4 · 1967 · 39 want to read
My Brother Michael
4.4 · 1960 · 35 want to read
Rose Cottage
3.7 · 1994 · 32 want to read
Wildfire at Midnight
4.2 · 1956 · 33 want to read
Stormy Petrel
3.9 · 1991 · 28 want to read
A Walk in Wolf Wood
4 · 1980 · 32 want to read
The Wicked Day
4.3 · 1983 · 27 want to read
Little Broomstick
4 · 1971 · 30 want to read
Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy
4.7 · 1980 · 29 want to read
The Prince and the Pilgrim
5 · 1995 · 26 want to read
The Spell of Mary Stewart
4 · 1968 · 16 want to read
Mary Stewart--four complete novels
1983 · 15 want to read