Philippa Pearce [SEP] cause of death
married Martin Christie in 1962. They had one daughter, who became a children's author herself, as Sally Christie. Martin Christie, who had never wholly recovered from being a Japanese prisoner of war, died in 1964. From 1973 until her death from complications of a stroke in 2006, Philippa Pearce lived once again in Great Shelford, down the lane where she was raised.
Legacy.
Every September from 2008, the Philippa Pearce Lecture at Homerton College, Cambridge celebrates "excellence in writing for children and to
, Gwen Darwin, later Raverat, grew up in the old mill by the Mill Pond. Her book, "Period Piece", is a memoir of a childhood messing about on the river. The mill house is now part of Darwin College.
Children's author Philippa Pearce, who lived in Great Shelford until her death in December 2006, featured the Cam in her books, most notably "Minnow on the Say". The river is renamed the River Say, with Great and Little Shelford becoming Great and Little