Charlotte Hough

[2] She served in the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS) during World War II.

[13] Kirkus Reviews found Hough's Red Biddy and Other Stories (1966) to offer "original fairy tales with a sunny disposition".

[14] Hough also illustrated works by others, including editions of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, M. E. Atkinson's Castaway Camp (1952) and The Barnstormers (1953), Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did (1958), Marjorie M. Oliver's Land of Ponies (1951), April Jaffe's The Enchanted Horse (1953), and several books by Anita Hewett.

[20] In 1997, Charlotte Hough married Dr Louis Ackroyd, a widower formerly in the Colonial Engineering Service and University of Nottingham.

[2] In 2009, her daughters donated two boxes of her original book illustrations to the Seven Stories Archive in Gateshead.

Charlotte Hough appearing on a television discussion programme After Dark in 1987. Others in the photograph are (pictured from left) host Ian Kennedy , Lord Soper , and John Finnis .