7/4/2023 0 Comments Author of the worst witch![]() Jill Murphy began writing The Worst Witch at the age of 15, while still at school. “Where was my physics homework!?” Together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, this provided much of the material and inspiration for Miss Cackle's Academy in The Worst Witch series. “The nuns didn’t care that I could draw fantastic pictures,” she says. Jill attended the Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, a very strict academic convent which she hated for the first year. ![]() ![]() Jill loved primary school, where, she says “I could always draw my way out of trouble if we had a tricky history project!” “You can see how my handwriting and drawing improved as time went by.” Jill had made her own enormous library of hand-written and illustrated books while still at primary school. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six, Jill was stapling her own little illustrated storybooks together – her mum kept them all and she still has them today! “It’s great fun to see them all these years later,” she says. Jill was born and brought up in London and says that she can’t remember a time she wasn’t a storyteller/illustrator. ![]() Her stay-at-home mother was a "book maniac" and her father was an Irish engineer. Jill grew up a Roman Catholic, but is no longer practising. ![]()
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