Joyce Reason (December 1894 – 18 September 1974) was a British author of missionary biographies and historical fiction for young readers.
[citation needed] In a memoir of his great-aunt, Matthew Reason writes: "In following traces of her life, through both public archives and private collections in attics and cupboards, I discovered that as well as a writer she was an idealist, an evangelist, a bluestocking, a spinster, a crank, and a missionary.
[23] She also wrote popular biographies of John Bunyan,[24] Robert Browne,[25] Henry Barrowe,[26] William Penn,[27] Isobel Kuhn[28] and Sadhu Sundar Singh of India.
[29] In September 1951, Joyce Reason joined the headquarters staff of the Leprosy Mission as Editorial Secretary for a five-year term.
Her novel The Mad Miller of Wareham is set in King John's time in Dorset and concerns a plot to put Arthur of Brittany on the throne.
[35] The towns, villages, abbeys and priories of Dorset, where the tale is set, are creditably brought to light and more than one of the characters is drawn in the round and exists as a person.
[36] The novel To Capture the King, concerns a Jacobite plot and smuggling on the Sussex coast, with incidental glimpses of Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole.The texture of history is less closely woven in this but the story is exciting.