Sybil Marshall

Sybil Marshall (1913–2005) was a British writer, educator, and social historian. She began her career as a primary school teacher in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where she developed innovative, creative teaching methods that later influenced the 1967 Plowden Report. She was also a university lecturer, educational adviser for Granada Television, and a folklorist. She began a successful career as a novelist at the age of 80, publishing a semi-autobiographical trilogy.