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Sally Carson
Sally Carson
Sylvia ‘Sally’ Carson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in 1901 in Surrey and brought up by her widowed mother in Dorset, where she went to school. For several years she was a publisher’s reader and taught dance; she also wrote an unpublished novel called Where is Solitude? (now lost). During this time she often went to stay in Bavaria with friends; it was first in Germany and then back in England that she wrote her trilogy of novels, Crooked Cross (1934), The Prisoner (1936) and A Traveller Came By (1938). Crooked Cross was performed as a play in Birmingham in 1935 and later in London; the play was published in a volume on its own in 1938. That year she married Eric Humphries (1894-1968) who ran the Bradford works of the publisher Lund Humphries founded by his father; they had twins, a son and a daughter, and then another daughter. But in June 1941 Sally Carson died of breast cancer.
