Joanne Harris, Sarah Churchwell and others pay tribute to bestselling author of Touch Not the Cat and This Rough Magic for her 'fab, literate young women-centric novels'
Pioneering novelist Mary Stewart: 'I'm first and foremost a teller of tales …' Photograph: Hodder & Stoughton
The bestselling pioneer of romantic-suspense novels Mary Stewart has died at the age of 97, her publisher has said.
Known for much-loved novels including Touch Not the Cat, This Rough Magic and Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart among the first novelists to integrate mystery and romance. She made the archetype of the determined, intelligent heroine her own, thrusting her into daring adventures from which she would emerge intact and happily romantically involved. Stewart was spotted after sending the manuscript of her first novel, Madam, Will You Talk?, to Hodder & Stoughton in 1953. It hit the bestseller lists the following year, and she went on to pen a series of novels in a similar vein.
Her publisher Hodder & Stoughton said on Thursday it was "so very sad to learn that Mary Stewart has died. We've proudly published her novels from the beginning and we'll miss her enormously."
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Known for much-loved novels including Touch Not the Cat, This Rough Magic and Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart among the first novelists to integrate mystery and romance. She made the archetype of the determined, intelligent heroine her own, thrusting her into daring adventures from which she would emerge intact and happily romantically involved. Stewart was spotted after sending the manuscript of her first novel, Madam, Will You Talk?, to Hodder & Stoughton in 1953. It hit the bestseller lists the following year, and she went on to pen a series of novels in a similar vein.
Her publisher Hodder & Stoughton said on Thursday it was "so very sad to learn that Mary Stewart has died. We've proudly published her novels from the beginning and we'll miss her enormously."
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