Charlotte Hough
Charlotte Hough was a British author of over thirty illustrated children's books.
Early life
Helen Charlotte Woodyatt was born in Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Her father was a doctor in his fifties. Her mother, an actress, singer and pianist, was widowed in World War I with a son. Her parents divorced; Charlotte was raised by her mother. Her older half-brother, Roger Roughton, died by suicide in 1941. She served in the Women's Royal Navy Service during World War II.Career
Hough's wrote and illustrated over thirty children's books. Her subjects were often stories about children and animals; their titles included Jim Tiger, The Hampshire Pig, The Animal Game, Algernon, Anna and Minnie, Three Little Funny Ones, The Owl in the Barn, The Trackers, Educating Flora and Other Stories, Sir Frog and Other Stories, The Homemakers, Abdul the Awful and Other Stories, A Bad Child's Book of Moral Verse, My Aunt's Alphabet, Queer Customer, Wonky Donkey, Pink Pig, Bad Cat, The Holiday Story Book, The Mixture as Before, and Verse and Various. Kirkus Reviews found Hough's Red Biddy and Other Stories to offer "original fairy tales with a sunny disposition".Hough also illustrated works by others, including editions of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, M. E. Atkinson's Castaway Camp and The Barnstormers, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did, Marjorie M. Oliver's Land of Ponies, April Jaffe's The Enchanted Horse, and several books by Anita Hewett.
She wrote one book for adults, a detective novel, The Bassington Murder.