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Elizabeth Rodger was born in Scotland and raised in a small village in the Central Lowlands equidistant from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
On graduating from Glasgow School of Art, she was hired by Coats & Clarke to design books on embroidery. With the wanderlust bug taking hold, she migrated to New York where she was hired as a designer by Golden Books.
With the birth of her first son, she assumed a free-lance status. For many years she was the ghost for the famous Richard Scarry, writing and illustrating many of his books. Eventually, she fulfilled her dream as author/illustrator of children’s titles published by several major companies. With a bee taking up residence in her bonnet, she jumped into the adult arena with her first novel, BUT FOR FREEDOM, followed by a sequel based on eighteenth century history.
During her student years, hiking the mountains of northern Scotland as a member of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club, she sensed a deathly quiet, the eeriness in the emptiness of the glens. On being informed of the atrocities committed after the Battle of Culloden, she felt compelled to tell about the ethnic cleansing of the region. In her first novel, BUT FOR FREEDOM, Across the Sea Beyond Skye, and the sequel, A Rebellious Echo of the White Cockade, her familiarity of the Scottish landscape and her ethnic heritage brought authenticity to the portrayal of the Highland family and the tribulations of their forced emigration to the ‘new world’.
Her book is available through our Amazon stores in both the UK and USA which you can reach at http://www.electricscotland.com/shopmall.htm
On graduating from Glasgow School of Art, she was hired by Coats & Clarke to design books on embroidery. With the wanderlust bug taking hold, she migrated to New York where she was hired as a designer by Golden Books.
With the birth of her first son, she assumed a free-lance status. For many years she was the ghost for the famous Richard Scarry, writing and illustrating many of his books. Eventually, she fulfilled her dream as author/illustrator of children’s titles published by several major companies. With a bee taking up residence in her bonnet, she jumped into the adult arena with her first novel, BUT FOR FREEDOM, followed by a sequel based on eighteenth century history.
During her student years, hiking the mountains of northern Scotland as a member of the Glasgow University Mountaineering Club, she sensed a deathly quiet, the eeriness in the emptiness of the glens. On being informed of the atrocities committed after the Battle of Culloden, she felt compelled to tell about the ethnic cleansing of the region. In her first novel, BUT FOR FREEDOM, Across the Sea Beyond Skye, and the sequel, A Rebellious Echo of the White Cockade, her familiarity of the Scottish landscape and her ethnic heritage brought authenticity to the portrayal of the Highland family and the tribulations of their forced emigration to the ‘new world’.
Her book is available through our Amazon stores in both the UK and USA which you can reach at http://www.electricscotland.com/shopmall.htm
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