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Beryl Gilroy


Born
in Guyana
August 30, 1924

Died
April 04, 2001


Beryl Agatha Gilroy (née Answick) (30 August 1924 � 4 April 2001) was a novelist and teacher, and "one of Britain's most significant post-war Caribbean migrants". Born in what was then British Guiana (now Guyana), she moved in the 1950s to the United Kingdom, where she became the first black headteacher in London. She was the mother of academic Paul Gilroy.

Gilroy's creative writing began in childhood, as a teacher for children and then in the 1960s when she began writing what was later published by Peepal Tree Press as In Praise of Love and Children. Between 1970 and 1975 she wrote the pioneering children’s series Nippers, which contain probably the first reflection of the Black British presence in UK writing for children.

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Frangipani House
4.04 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
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Black Teacher
4.18 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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Inkle & Yarico
3.84 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1996
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Boy-Sandwich
3.83 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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In Praise of Love and Children
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Sunlight on Sweet Water
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Gather the Faces
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Stedman and Joanna: A Love ...
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Carnival of Dreams
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