Sybil Marshall

Sybil Marshall (26 November 1913 – 29 August 2005) was a British writer, novelist, social historian, broadcaster, folklorist and educationalist.

Here Marshall developed teaching methods based on integrating subjects and encouraging children's creativity.

[1] She attended Exhall Grange Emergency Training College in Coventry from 1948 to 1949, before going to Kingston County School in Cambridgeshire as Headteacher.

She was Sue Lawley's castaway on Desert Island Discs in 1993[4] and was a winner of the Angel Prize for Literature for her Everyman's Book of English Folk Tales (1981).

[2] Frank Marshall found it hard to handle such an independently minded wife and left her for another woman.