Jan Merry, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/janmerry/ Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:25:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Inspirational Women Writers https://booksbywomen.org/inspirational-women-writers-by-jan-merry/ https://booksbywomen.org/inspirational-women-writers-by-jan-merry/#comments Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:00:47 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9594 When writing a short story about a family in Australia during the Great Depression, I recently found myself referencing, almost subconsciously, books I’d read in early childhood. Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and May Gibbs, author of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie both came to mind as I related the differences between a […]

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