Barbara Euphan Todd wrote a series of children's books about which popular character later the star of several TV series?
Barbara Euphan Todd of her Worzel Gummidge books. Barbara Euphan Todd Barbara Euphan Todd (9 January 1890 – 2 February 1976) was an English writer widely remembered for her ten books for children about a scarecrow called Worzel Gummidge. These were adapted for radio and television. The title story was chosen as the first in the new publisher's series Puffin Books. Todd was born at Arksey, near Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as the only child of an Anglican vicar, Thomas Todd, and Alice Maud Mary ("née" Bentham). She was brought up in the village of Soberton in Hampshire and
Barbara Euphan Todd Blewbury near Oxford, where Bower, an officer in the Royal Navy, wrote fiction and essays under the pseudonym "Klaxon", and Todd, as "Barbara Euphan" for "South Country Secrets" (1935). Together they wrote "The Touchstone", in which observation of the countryside is combined with interest in its history, in a similar way to Rudyard Kipling's "Puck of Pook's Hill". Commander Bower died in 1940. Todd's only novel for adults was "Miss Ranskill Comes Home" (1946), which is about a woman who returns to England after being stranded on a desert island during the Second World War. Todd continued to write novels