# Kitty Barne > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kitty_Barne > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kitty_Barne.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Barne > Source revision: 1344168128 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British screenwriter and author (1882–1961)}} {{Infobox person | name = Kitty Barne | birth_name= Marion Catherine Barne | image = | caption = | other_names = Kitty Streatfeild | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|11|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [Petersham](/source/Petersham%2C_London), Surrey | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|2|03|1882|11|17|df=y}} | death_place = Darenth, Dartford, Kent | occupation = Author, screenwriter | education = [Royal College of Music](/source/Royal_College_of_Music) | citizenship = British | spouse = Eric Streatfeild | relatives =[Noel Streatfeild](/source/Noel_Streatfeild) (cousin-in-law) }} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2013}} '''Marion Catherine "Kitty" Barne''' (17 November 1882 – 3 February 1961{{cite news | author = E. F. Bozman | author-link = E. F. Bozman | title = Obituary | date = 15 February 1961 | newspaper = [The Times](/source/The_Times_(London)) }}) (also known as '''Kitty Streatfeild''') was a [British](/source/British_people) [screenwriter](/source/screenwriter) and author of [children's books](/source/children's_books), especially on music and musical themes. She won the 1940 [Carnegie Medal](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)) for British children's books. ==Biography== Barne was born in [Petersham](/source/Petersham%2C_London), Surrey, but was brought up in [Somerset](/source/Somerset) and [Sussex](/source/Sussex), and later studied at the [Royal College of Music](/source/Royal_College_of_Music). On 12 April 1912, in [Eastbourne](/source/Eastbourne), she married Eric Streatfeild, thus becoming the cousin-in-law of another popular children's writer [Noel Streatfeild](/source/Noel_Streatfeild).{{cite book | title = The Who's Who of Children's Literature | author = Brian Doyle | page = [https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofchildre00scho/page/20 20] | year = 1968 | isbn = 0-8052-0307-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofchildre00scho/page/20 }}{{Cite news|title=Interesting Wedding – Mr Eric Streatfeild and Miss Kitty Barne |newspaper=Eastbourne Chronicle |date=13 April 1912}}{{cite book | title = British Children's Fiction in the Second World War | author = Owen Dudley Edwards | year = 2007 |pages=184, 258–9 | isbn = 978-0-7486-1651-0 }} Eric Streatfeild was the first cousin of Noel Streatfeild's father. Barne was a member of the [Women's Voluntary Service](/source/Women's_Voluntary_Service), responsible for the reception of [children evacuated](/source/Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Britain_during_World_War_II) to Sussex. During the war years, she published six novels, most notably ''[Visitors from London](/source/Visitors_from_London)'' about evacuees ([J. M. Dent](/source/J._M._Dent), 1940). For that work she won the annual [Carnegie Medal](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)) from the [Library Association](/source/CILIP), recognising the year's best children's book by a [British subject](/source/British_subject).{{cite journal | journal = Library Association Record | publisher = Library Association | page =102 | title = N/A}} She is possibly best known now for her [pony book](/source/pony_book)s ''Rosina Copper'' and its sequel ''Rosina and Son'', about the true story of an [Argentine](/source/Argentina) [polo pony](/source/polo_pony) mare that was rescued from neglect after being ordered to be killed.{{cite book | title = International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature | author = Peter Hunt, Sheila Ray | year = 1996 | publisher = Taylor & Francis | page = [https://archive.org/details/internationalcom00hunt_0/page/365 365] | isbn = 0-415-08856-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/internationalcom00hunt_0/page/365 }}{{cite magazine | title = Kitty Barne – Rosina Copper, Mystery Mare |magazine=[The Horn Book Magazine](/source/The_Horn_Book_Magazine) | volume = 2 | issue = 32 | year = 1956 | publisher = Horn Book, Inc. }} They were illustrated by [Alfons Purtscher](/source/Alfons_Purtscher) and [Marcia Lane Foster](/source/Marcia_Lane_Foster) respectively. Apart from her novels, she wrote some non-fiction books, including a biography of [Elizabeth Fry](/source/Elizabeth_Fry) (who was her husband's great-grandmother) in 1950,{{cite book | title = Elizabeth Fry: a story biography | author = Kitty Barne | publisher = Harmondsworth: Penguin Books | year = 1950 }} a book about the orchestra, a history of the [Girl Guides](/source/Girl_Guides) and a book of Camp Fire Songs (1944). She was Commissioner for Music and Drama for the Girl Guides for some years where she was assisted by [Mary Chater](/source/Mary_Cuningham_Chater). [Ruth Gervis](/source/Ruth_Gervis), the illustrator of a number of her books, said of her: {{blockquote|To an illustrator, Kitty Barne was a most delightful author, not because she gave one a free hand, far from it, but because she knew exactly what she wanted and was so delighted when one caught her visual images. It was a true collaboration of author and artist. We would meet and then, her good ear towards me, her eyes shining, her face alive with interest, she would discuss her characters. I used to make dozens of quick sketches until I got them as she pictured them, helped by her interjections, 'Oh, rather a higher forehead and even deeper set eyes' or 'oh, no you've made her far too nice, I think she is a horrid little girl.' We would laugh together over her amusing adults as she suggested incidents for me to sketch which would bring out their characteristics.
{{right|''Chosen for Children'', 1977.{{cite book | title = Chosen for Children | author = Marcus Crouch | publisher = Library Association | year = 1957 |page=23 | isbn = 0-85365-349-6 }}}}}} She died on 3 February 1961 after a long illness. ==Selected works== *''The Easter Holidays'' aka ''Secret of the Sandhills'' (1935) *''She Shall Have Music'' (1938) *''Family Footlights'' (1939) *''[Visitors from London](/source/Visitors_from_London)'' (1940) *''Listening to the Orchestra'' (1941) *''May I Keep Dogs?'' aka ''Bracken, My Dog'' (1941) *''We'll Meet in England'' (1942) *''The Amber Gate'' (1942) *''Three and a Pigeon'' (1944) *''In the Same Boat'' (1945) *''Here Come the Girl Guides'' (1946) *''Musical Honours'' (1947) *''Bracken My Dog'' (1949) *''Dusty's Windmill'' (1949) *''Roly's Dog'' (1950) *''Elizabeth Fry: a story biography'' (1950) *''The Windmill Mystery'' (1950) *''Barbie'' (1952) *''Admiral's Walk'' (1953) *''Music Perhaps'' (1953) *''Rosina Copper'' (1954) *''Tann's Boarders'' (1955) *''Rosina and Son'' (1956) ==See also== {{Portal bar |Children's literature }} ==References== {{Reflist |refs= [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/livingarchive/title.php?id=115 (Carnegie Winner 1940)]. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [CILIP](/source/CILIP). Retrieved 2012-08-15. }} ==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} *[http://www.piedpiperpublishing.com/outoftheattic.htm Cheri Lloyd (2006) A Nation at War: The Work of Kitty Barne and Mary Treadgold in Pat Pinsent (ed.) ''Out of the Attic''] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barne, Kitty}} Category:1882 births Category:1961 deaths Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Music Category:Carnegie Medal in Literature winners Category:English women children's writers Category:English children's writers Category:Pony books Category:Writers from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Category:Writers from Somerset Category:Writers from Sussex --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kitty Barne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Barne) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Barne?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.