Vera Chapman also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty, and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took, was an author and founder of the first Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian

King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...

 books.

Life

She was born in Bournemouth, England on 8 May 1898 and lived in South Africa until she went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....

 where she was one of the first women to matriculate

Matriculation

Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula – little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings...

 as a full member of Oxford University. She founded the first Tolkien Society of which she was secretary. She persuaded J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

 to become the society's honorary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.

Novels

• The Green Knight (1975) ISBN 0-901720-63-1/978-0-901720-63-4 (UK edition)
• King Arthur's Daughter (1976) ISBN 0-86036-012-1/978-0-86036-012-4 (UK edition)
• The King's Damsel (1976) ISBN 0-86036-018-0/978-0-86036-018-6 (UK edition) which the Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
  
   animated movie Quest For Camelot
  Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...
  
   is based on.
• Judy and Julia (1977) ISBN 0-86036-020-2/978-0-86036-020-9 (UK edition)
• Blaedud the Birdman (1978) ISBN 0-86036-080-6/978-0-86036-080-3 (UK edition)
• The Wife of Bath (1978) ISBN 0-86036-057-1/978-0-86036-057-5 (UK edition)
• Miranty and the Alchemist (1983) ISBN 0-233-98042-3/978-0-233-98042-3 (UK edition)
• The Enchantresses (1998) (with Mike Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
  ) ISBN 0-575-06524-9/978-0-575-06524-6 (UK edition)

Collections

• The Notorious Abbess (1993) ISBN 0-89733-387-X/978-0-89733-387-0 (USA edition)

Non fiction

• Around Darlington in Old Photographs (1990) ISBN 0-86299-812-3/978-0-86299-812-7 (UK edition)
• Croft, Hurworth, Neasham, Middleton And Dinsdale in Old Picture Postcards (1996)

Anthologies containing stories by Vera Chapman

• The Merlin Chronicles (1995) ISBN 1854873326

Short stories

• "Crusader Damosel" (1978) (in the anthology "Cosmic Knights", 1984)
• "A Sword for Arthur" (1995)