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Missing Authors: Who Was Cartoonist and Teacher Jane Hope?

Does anyone know anything more about author and cartoonist Jane Hope, an acerbic commentator on the teaching profession of the 1950s?

Our house was crammed with books as kids, fiction and factual, including Giles and Fred Basset collections, the Nigel Molesworth books – and two books by a little-known author, cartoonist and teacher, Jane Hope, bought by mother, a writer who, it seems, is near impossible to find much detail about. Her first book, Don’t Do It, a guide to teaching was published in 1947, around the time my mother…

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Lionel White - Coffin for a Hood by severance_23 on Flickr.

Via Flickr: First published in the U.S. by Gold Medal in 1958. This U.K. edition published by Frederick Muller Ltd. (346) in 1959. Cover art by Darcy.