Verily Anderson

Verily Anderson (12 January 1915 – 16 July 2010) was a British author, best known for writing the screenplay of the 1960 film No Kidding, based on her 1958 book Beware of Children, for writing Brownie books and writing genealogical books about the Gurney, Barclay and Buxton families.

Biography

Born as Verily Bruce on 12 January 1915 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, she was the daughter of Francis Rosslyn Courtenay Bruce and Rachel Gurney, the fourth of her parents' five children. Castellans of Herstmonceux (1911-2010) (Bader International Study Centre, 2011). She is buried with her husband Paul Paget in the neighbouring village of Sidestrand.

She had five children, including Rachel Anderson, author of children's literature, and Janie Hampton, author, radio producer and international health planner. Our Square, 1957. Beware of Children, 1958. Daughters of Divinity, 1960. The Flo Affair, 1963. Scrambled Egg for Christmas; line drawings by Marian O'Hare; 1970.

Non-fiction The Northrepps Grandchildren, 1968. The Last of the Eccentrics: A Life of Rosslyn Bruce, 1972. Friends and Relations: Three Centuries of Quaker Families, 1980. The De Veres of Castle Hedingham, 1993. Castellans of Herstmonceux (1911–2010), 2011 .

Film Beware of Children, 1960, renamed No Kidding in North America. Directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan and Julia Lockwood.