YOUNG AUTHORESS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 5

YOUNG AUTHORESS

Writes Best Sellers Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.! London, Dec. 7. A little girl of fourteen who lives in a 15th Century manor house in rural Essex, has her own “den” in the barn loft. She climbs up a rough log ladder m a picturesque old red-bricked tithe-barn with fine oak beams and leaded lights. Up there she has her working table. There she has written three books, all of which are “best sellers” of their type. Moyra Chariton is the only daughter of Brigadier-General C. E. Charlton, who served five and a half years, in India and ten years with the Egyptian Army. She wrote her first “work” secretly when she was six. It was only discovered a year ago—between the red covers of a little notebook. The story is about a terrible storm at sea. _ All tlic writing is in laborious capitals. The “book” Is divided into seven chapters and each has a proper dramatic ending. Her first book, written when she was eleven, is called “Tally Ho!” and it is now in its fifth edition. Her second, “Patch,” is a tale of a terriers adventures in America, and her third, published in September, is ‘The Midnight. Steeplechase.” . She lias been riding to hounds since she was ten.