![]() ![]() The Witch and the Priest (1956), Lewis’s own favourite among her novels, was republished several times through the 1970s, when it was included in the ‘Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult’ series and reissued in America to coincide with the popularity of films such as The Exorcist (1973). Her novel The Day is Ours (1947) was filmed as Mandy (1952), with a screenplay by Nigel Balchin. Her children’s novel The Ship That Flew (1939) remains in print with Oxford University Press and has become recognized as a classic of children’s literature. She published more than thirty books, including both adult and children’s fiction, and much of her writing was in the genre of historical fiction. ![]() Thereafter, she devoted herself full-time to writing. She married in the early 1920s and moved to Nottingham, where her husband was appointed to the old University College as a lecturer in education. She began writing at an early age, editing her school and college magazines, then worked as a teacher in London. ![]()
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