Vyvyen Brendon

Vyvyen Brendon read History at St Anne's College, Oxford. After a career in teaching she retired as Head of History at St Mary's School, Cambridge, to take up full-time research and writing. With the successful publications of _Children of the Raj_ and _Prep School Children_, Vyvyen has become an acknowledged expert on the subject of youngsters past and present. _Children at Sea_ is her third book. She keeps in touch with the rising generation through her work as chair of the trustees of a nursery school and through her five grandchildren.