![]() ![]() Unusually among the leading children's writers of her time, much of her work was for younger children, at the start of their reading, notably the series of stories about Polly and the wolf, which were written for her daughter, Polly. She took her own life at her London flat in January, 2001. She continued writing novels into her eighties, but became depressed by rejections. They divorced in 1970 and she subsequently married the economist Lord Balogh (1905-1985). ![]() She had three daughters by this marriage, Sophia, Polly and Emma. She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920-2001) during her training and married him in 1942. Afterwards, while regularly producing new children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books, from 1966 to the early seventies. From 1950 to 1963 she worked as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital. Without giving up this ambition she studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She went on to study English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at first pursued a career as a novelist without success. ![]() She attended St Paul's Girls' School, where she was taught music by Gustav Holst and became the school's organist. She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1883-1968), and his wife, Margaret Henrietta, born Gaselee (1882-1971). ![]()
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