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Carola Oman


(Carola Mary Anima Oman)
UK flag (1897 - 1978)

aka C Lenanton

Carola Oman was an English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer, best known for her retelling of the Robin Hood legend and for a 1946 biography of Admiral Lord Nelson. According to an obituary, "She did not so much popularise history as elevate the level of popular history."
 
 
Novels
   Princess Amelia (1924)
   The Road Royal (1924)
   King Heart (1926)
   Mrs. Newdigate's window (1927) (as by C Lenanton)
   The Holiday (1928) (as by C Lenanton)
   Crouchback (1929)
   Miss Barrett's Elopement (1929) (as by C Lenanton)
   Fair Stood the Wind (1930) (as by C Lenanton)
   Major Grant (1931)
   The Empress (1932)
   The Best of His Family (1933)
   Over the Water (1935)
   Ferry the Fearless (1936)
   Robin Hood: The Prince of Outlaws (1937)
   Alfred King of the English (1939)
   Nothing to Report (1941)
   Somewhere in England (1943)
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Collections
   The Menin Road (poems) (1919)
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