Maureen Hunter Summary

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Mollie Hunter, in The Ghosts of Glencoe, gives fictional treatment to an historical event, and one of which every detail has already been closely studi... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Service [A Pistol in Greenyards is a] tale within a tale: the first an evocation of an 1854 estate eviction (Highland Scots), the second a frame for writing the experiences&#... Read more

Critical Essay by Diane G. Stavn [The Ferlie is an] overly long but nevertheless intriguing fantasy with authentic characters, setting and dialect…. The old question of the desirability of per... Read more

Critical Essay by John Signoriello [In The Lothian Run, sixteen]-year-old Sandy Maxwell, a bored and restless apprentice in a law office in Edinburgh, Scotland in the early 18th Century, is afforded ... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews [The Walking Stones is a very light fantastic, deftly tripped story that seems to tell itself, to unfold] with no more of a prod than the turn of a page and the sures... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Mollie Hunter's The Kelpie's Pearls is something of a triumph, for fantasy and magic are made to appear natural and inevitable in a moder... Read more

Critical Essay by The Junior Bookshelf The author has a strong feeling for fantasy and an ability for setting the atmosphere for magic and uncanny happenings. In all her books there is only a narrow ... Read more

Critical Essay by Sheryl B. Andrews Combining in [The 13th Member: A Story of Suspense] the feeling for history found in The Lothian Run … with the proven ability—as in The Kelpie... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Nye In Wales, you have the Tylwyth Teg, a strange and beautiful supernatural race, unfortunately much given to the stealing of children. In Scotland, a similar reputation att... Read more

Critical Essay by Eleanor Cameron Mollie Hunter's two best books, to my way of thinking, are her second fantasy, "The Kelpie's Pearls," and this, her first novel of realis... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement Only a poet dares try to convey to the more earthbound of us the emotion he experiences when he sees a rainbow in the sky. A scientist, by reference to... Read more

Critical Essay by Jill Paton Walsh There is a vast gulf, often remarked upon, between the childhoods of actual children, liable like all the rest of us to the fell grip of circumstance, to poverty, a... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Cooper Mollie Hunter's "The Stronghold" takes an enormous leap back in time…. The force of Druidical magic and the mercilessness of tribal ritua... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher The Pictish broch, in spite of its likeness to the great Mycenean beehive tombs, is unique in its extraordinarily simple and effective defence-plan, and local enough ... Read more

Critical Essay by Mollie Hunter [It was] at the insistence of my two young sons that I wrote my first children's book, they being much charmed with two short stories I had written for them in ... Read more

Critical Essay by The Junior Bookshelf [A Stranger Came Ashore] is not quite the work expected of a Carnegie winner, but it would make a lesser reputation. The hero is not young Robbie Henderson, who... Read more

Critical Essay by Gordon Parsons The 'Caddies', that strange band of beggars and guides that formed a distinctive feature of sixteenth-century Edinburgh, provide an exciting human flavo... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Heins Mollie Hunter is best known for her historical narratives and fantasies for young people, but her present essays [collected in Talent Is Not Enough: Mollie Hunter on Writ... Read more

Critical Essay by Gordon Parsons The Ghosts of Glencoe embodies most of the strengths that we associate with writing for children of a more confident day—pace, sustained excitement, clearly de... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Cook It was providence that the book of Mollie Hunter's I read last was A Sound of Chariots. It is the author's answer to the questions that build up in coveri... Read more

Critical Essay by Janet Hickman Certainly it is hard to imagine how one could bring more of self to writing than [Mollie Hunter] does. Cultural heritage, life circumstances, love of language, passion... Read more

Critical Essay by The Junior Bookshelf What a fine writer Mollie Hunter is! One might think that, with her preoccupation with the Scottish scene, her stories might slip into monotony, but not a bit; ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Meek The grainy texture of the narrative and the evocation of doom (in the sense of judgement) are excellently done [in The Third Eye]. The action takes place in 1932 wh... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement A Pistol in Greenyards confirms the view that, though Mollie Hunter falls short of the magic by which a [Rosemary] Sutcliff or a [Winifred] Bryher turn... Read more

Critical Essay by Margery Fisher For Mollie Hunter, place is as important as people and causes. In The Ghosts of Glencoe she draws an almost unbearably vivid setting for the massacre of 1692—a... Read more