Books By Josephine Kamm - Author

Josephine Kamm (nee Hart) (1905-1989) was educated at Burgess Hill School for Girls, Josephine nurtured an ambition to be a writer, but resented her school's failure, common enough at the time, to prepare intelligent girls for university. On leaving school, she took a secretarial course, and continued to educate herself by wide and demanding reading.

During the 1930s and the War years, Josephine worked for Jewish refugee organisations, and became a Senior Information Officer and writer of pamphlets at the Ministry of Information. She also found time to write fiction, and between 1936 and 1948 published five adult novels. Like many writers, she did her stint on the committees of the National Book League, The London Centre of International PEN and the Fawcett Library, where she was impressed by the number of books for and about women. During the 1950s and 1960s, her fame as a writer for young readers was at its height; she fearlessly tackled then taboo subjects, achieving what she described as