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May Byron
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| Born | Mary Clarissa Gillington 1861 Audlem, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
| Died | 5 November 1936 (aged 74–75) |
| Pen name | May Byron, Mary Clarissa Gillington, Maurice Clare |
| Occupation | Poet, biographer, cookbook author, children's author |
| Years active | 1892–1925 |
| Relatives | Alice E. Gillington (sister) |
Mary Clarissa "May" Byron (née Gillington; 1861 – 5 November 1936) was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron, M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare. Byron specialised in writing biographies of great artists, before going on to rewrite some of J. M. Barrie's works for younger readers, to write poetry, and to write cookbooks.
Published books
Biographies
- A Day with Frédéric Chopin
- A Day with Keats
- A day with Charles Dickens
- A day with Charles François Gounod
- A day with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- A day with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- A day with Franz Schubert
- A day with George Eliot
- A day with John Milton
- A day with Lord Byron
- A day with Ludwig van Beethoven
- A day with the Poet Burns
- A day with the Poet Tennyson
- A day with the Poet Wordsworth
- A day with Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A day with Richard Wagner
- A day with Robert Louis Stevenson
- A day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A day with Tschaikovsky
- A day with Walt Whitman
- A day with Sir Walter Scott
- A day with William Makepeace Thackeray
- A day with William Morris
- Days with the Victorian poets : Rossetti, Morris, Mrs. Browning.
Poetry
- The garden of love
- The golden garden of the poets
- Poems (with A.E. Gillington)
- The Wind on the heath
- Christmas bells
Cook books
- May Byron's Pudding Book
- May Byron's Rations Book
- May Byron's Vegetable Book
- May Byron's Jam Book
- May Byron's Cake Book
- May Byron's How-To-Save Cookery Book
- Jams and Jellies
- Pot-Luck
- Simple Fare for Sick Folk
- Puddings, pastries, and sweet dishes
Children's books
- The Little wee Bear and goldenhair
- The Little Brown Rooster
- The Little Yellow Duckling
- The Little Tan Terrier
- The Little Small Red Hen
- Cat's Cradle: A Picture-book for Little Folk; cats by Louis Wain; rhymes by May Byron
- Jack-a-Dandy
- J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy: Retold for little people (authorised abridgement)
- J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: Retold for little people (authorised abridgement)
Images for kids
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The Brookwood asylum, where Byron's father was chaplain
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