Peggy Stack

Tonight's Swift Annual author is another illustrator...

Peggy Stack is credited as one of the anonymous authors of Swift Annual 6 (1959); she's also listed as an author in Robin Annual 8 (1960). She was also credited with a number of books which the British Library list under Gladys Margaret Stack.

If the British Library is correct (and, in this case, it seems likely), "Peggy Stack" may be the pen-name of Gladys Margaret F. Stack, born in Islington in 1903, although that's something of a guess. There is a Peggy Anna Stack who died in 2000, aged 75, so it's possible that Peggy was a real name. Of course, Stack could be either a maiden or married name, so it's almost impossible to know for sure. Just one of the problems researchers face...

Novels
The Gnome Who Came to Stay, illus. the author. Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1960.
Oh, Roderick. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1963.

Collections
Six and Twenty Tales, illus. the author. London, Faber & Faber, 1956.
Another Six and Twenty Tales, illus. the author. London, Faber & Faber, 1963.

Songs
French Songs for Children. Compiled and translated by Peggy Stack; arranged by Elizabeth Harding. London, Novello & Co., 1955.
English Songs for Children. Compiled from traditional sources, arranged by Elizabeth Harding. London, Novello & Co., 2pts., 1958-59.