Author Archives - Her Salisbury Story

Henrietta Lear

A remarkable Victorian lady, Henrietta was a prolific writer of religious lives

Frances' book 'A Spinster at Home' title page

Frances Child

A spinster gentlewoman of modest means had few opportunities in the Victorian era to supplement her income, became a popular author & story teller

One of Sarah's educational books ( front page)

Sarah Windsor Tomlinson

Sarahwas a British author of notable 19th Century books such as ‘First Steps in General Knowledge’

Edith Olivier

Author, pillar of the community and hostess to the Bright Young Things, Edith had an exceptional life

Wren Hall the location of the choir school in Dora's time

Dora Robertson impacted on the history of Salisbury in two ways: by helping to secure the future of the Choristers School when it faced financial collapse in the 1920s, and by writing the first history of the Cathedral Close, a work still used as a standard reference work by historians today

Mandy Baggot

There’s a book in all of us – but how about at least two a year!?

Eve Warton at the chalke Valley History Festival 2021

Evelyn Warton

Hear Eve talk about her amazing life, full of unusual twists and turns. From a cocooned life of privilege in-between the wars, to joining the WRNS to becoming part of a new elite category known as Night Vison Testers, to a happy family life after the war despite being impacted by sorrow and loss

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