Mary stewart author obituary examples

1916-2014

Mary Stewart, who has died at the age of 97, was the author of superior romantic thrillers and historical novels.

Her brand of quality escapism was firmly of the old school, but one that concealed a writer of considerable skill.

An ability to transport readers to places promising adventure was rewarded with popularity and consistently high sales.

Her work was informed by the traditional requirements of a romantic read, featuring heroines blessed with girlish enthusiasm and resolute, outdoorsy common sense - qualities that reflected her own personality.

But her intuitive feel for the past and its re-creation in vivid, poetic detail lifted the best of her writing into the class of Dorothy Dunnett, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault and John Buchan.

She felt the influence of Renault so strongly that she confessed to keeping away from her books while working on her own.

Her finest and most original achievement was an Ar