Muriel Alice Wace (née Maude; 5 April 1881 – 12 November 1968)[1] was an English children's book author known by the pseudonym Golden Gorse.
In later life, Muriel Wace removed to Ireland, living at Sandbank Farm, Snave, near Bantry in County Cork, until her death on 12 November 1968.
Her father, himself a skilled equestrian, gave his daughters an untrained Welsh pony, which the children learned to break in.
[1] Her first novel was the popular Moorland Mousie (1929) (illustrated by Lionel Edwards), the story of an Exmoor Pony, believed to be strongly influenced by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.
[1] Wace wrote four fictional pony books in total, in addition to highly regarded instruction manuals.