Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Bibliography
The Flax of Dream - a tetralogy following the life of Willie Maddison
The Beautiful Years (1921)
Dandelion Days (1922)
The Dream of Fair Women (1924)
The Pathway (1928)

A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - a semi-autobiographical series of 15 books following the life of Phillip Maddison from birth till the early 1950s. Lawrence. Fordingbridge Hants Castle Hill Press.

He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.