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Currently, Monica Edwards is 111 years, 5 months and 24 days old. Monica Edwards will celebrate 112rd birthday on a Friday 8th of November 2024. Below we countdown to Monica Edwards upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Monica Edwards |
Occupation | Children's Author |
Age | 108 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
Born | November 8, 1912 (England) |
Birthday | November 8 |
Town/City | England |
Nationality | England |
Monica Edwards’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Monica Edwards was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
Best remembered for her Punchbowl Farm and Romney Marsh book series, this twentieth-century British children's novelist published such popular individual titles as Wish for a Pony, The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm, and No Going Back.
Born Monica le Doux Newton in Derbyshire, England, she grew up as the daughter of a minister and studied at Wakefield Girls' High School and St. Brandon's School. Early in her life, she was deeply affected by the sinking of the Mary Stanford Lifeboat off the coast of Great Britain; she lost seventeen friends, including a teenage love, in the disaster, and later published a book -- Storm Ahead -- about the accident.
She frequently collaborated with artist Geoffrey Whittam; other illustrators of her books included Joan Wanklyn and Anne Bullen.
In her early twenties, she married Bill Edwards, a man ten years her senior. The couple raised two children: Shelley and Sean.
She and Eleanor Farjeon were both popular English children's authors of the early Twentieth Century.