Constance Winifred Savery (31 October 1897 – 2 March 1999) was a British writer of fifty novels and children's books,[1] as well as many short stories and articles.

[6] Reared in a Wiltshire vicarage, Savery was prepared for university study at King Edward VI High School for Girls[7] in Birmingham.

[10] She remained active to the end of a long life, completing a handwritten, 692-page revision of an unpublished manuscript just prior to her ninety-ninth birthday.

By age ten she was filling scraps from waste paper baskets with short stories and poems, one of which was later incorporated into what she considered her best book, The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood.

[14] After earning a teaching certificate from the University of Birmingham, she taught English at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, but when her mother died in 1925, she accepted her father's invitation to assist him at his new parish of Middleton-cum-Fordley near Saxmundham in Suffolk.

[18] When Christine's medical problems increased, requiring that she move in 1989 to Resthaven, a nursing home near Stroud, Savery accompanied her.

Handicapped by arthritis and partial blindness, Savery continued to write, although her Christian novels no longer found publishers.

[11] In 1995, the University of Oxford celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the awarding of degrees to women, and Savery attended as a guest of honour.

[16] During vacations while attending Oxford, Savery wrote long melodramatic stories, which she labelled as trash, about suffering children undergoing psychological abuse from unfeeling guardians who were reclaimed in the last chapters by virtuous women.

One of these, Enemy Brothers, has already been mentioned, and another, The Good Ship Red Lily, received praise[35] and the Junior Scholastic Magazine Gold Seal Award in 1944.

Savery herself attended King Edward's School, came from a sizable family that lived in St. Mark's Vicarage, and also commuted by rail.

The story, Redhead at School, had a Christian setting, but the Lutterworth editor asked for a more evangelical message, offering a fifty per cent increase in the stipend and an earlier publication date.

The New York Times reviewer wrote, "If Emma had no connection with Charlotte Bronte, one might happily accept it on its own terms: the pellmell sequence of exciting events sustains attention and provides diversion," but it was not the book that Brontë would have written.

[44] Savery was identified only as Another Lady until the original book went out of print, but she was compensated by generous terms, excellent sales, and translations into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.

By the end of her residence at Resthaven, Savery's eyesight permitted her to read, with a magnifying glass, one word at a time, in natural light, when the sun was highest.

Two later books, The Royal Caravan and The Drifting Sands, challenge racism, and Three Houses in Beverley Road counters anti-Semitism.