Almost none of her many adult novels contain explicit fantasy content, though some have supernatural implications of these titles, Castle Barebane ( 1976) is a streamlined Gothic and The Haunting of Lamb House (coll of linked stories 1991), set in the actual Lamb House in Rye, exposes two of its real-life inhabitants – Henry James (1843-1916) and E F Benson – to the ghost of an eighteenth-century child who has had to endure the breakup of his family.Īiken was never strongly drawn to the writing of sf, though her most famous sequence – the Wolves Chronicles, also variously referred to as the Willoughby Chase, Alternate England, Dido Twite or James III series, beginning with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase ( 1962) and ending with The Witch of Clatteringshaws ( 2005) – is set in a genuine (if at times pixillated) Alternate History version of Britain where the Stuart dynasty has survived (James III has acceded in 1832), though Hanoverian plots against the throne abound (directly reversing the historical record). (1924-2004) UK author, daughter of Conrad Aiken, stepdaughter of Martin Armstrong, and sister of John Aiken best known as a highly prolific author of fantasy for children and Young Adult readers.
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