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Dorothy Vicary

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Sybil Dorothy Vicary (née Mudge) was an English novelist. She was best known for her school adventure story novels aimed at 14- to 15-year-old girls, including Lucy Brown's School Days and Niece of the Headmistress.[1][2][3] Vicary lived in Belfast in the 1930s and moved to Golders Green in London in the 1950s, where she wrote A Secret at Sprayle in 1955 under the name Dorothy Mary Rice.[4][5]

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  1. ^ The Librarian and Book World. 1956. p. 155. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  2. ^ Leader, Zachary (1 July 2009). The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-955825-4. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  3. ^ Hart, Christopher (12 May 2002). "The spinster within". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  4. ^ Auchmuty, Rosemary; Wotton, Joy (2000). The Encyclopaedia of School Stories: The encyclopaedia of girls' school stories. Ashgate. p. 286. ISBN 978-0-7546-0082-4. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  5. ^ Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1974. ISBN 978-0-8103-0002-6. Retrieved 10 August 2012.