![]() Several of her books are set in Suffolk, with many also having a maritime or naval setting. ![]() She sometimes covered similar themes for different age groups Beyond the Weir Bridge was written for teens, while the same issues and events appear in Through the Fire, aimed at six-to-nine year olds. It included the slave trade in To Ravensrigg and the Captain Swing riots of the 1830s in No Beat of Drum and Otmoor for Ever. Her subject matter often reflected a radical approach first popularised by Geoffrey Trease. ![]() Her first children's novel was The Great Gale, published in 1960 and inspired by the devastation inflicted by the North Sea flood of 1953 on her home county of Suffolk. ![]() In addition, Burton edited works by friends and colleagues, including Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? Hardy's Religious Biography and its Influence on his Novels by Timothy R. ![]()
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