She joined the School Broadcasting Department (Radio) of the BBC in 1945, as a scriptwriter and producer, and worked there until 1958. Many of her stories, especially those collected as
The Elm Street Lot (1979), were originally produced by the BBC.
For a short while Pearce worked as an editor in the educational department of the Clarendon Press in Oxford, but in 1960 she returned to London to work as a children's editor at André Deutsch. Although she worked there only part-time, her name became associated with several of the books she edited. Some, such as Harold Scott's juvenile edition of From Inside Scotland Yard (1963) and Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1972), Pearce does not feel should be listed with her other works, for they are primarily examples of her editing skills. Other books, such as her adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (1972), her translation and adaptation of Wings of Courage (1982), and her collaboration with Brian Fairfax-Lucy on The Children of the House (1968), are more properly placed within the body of her original work.
This is a free page. This page contains 145 words. This
biography contains 6,022 words (approx. 20 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our (Ann) Philippa Christie Access Pass.
