Nan Chauncy
| Nan Chauncy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nancen Beryl Masterman 28 May 1900 Northwood, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 1 May 1970 (aged 69) Bagdad, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British Australian |
| Period | 1948–1969 |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Spouse | Helmut Anton Rosenfeld (1938–1970) |
| Children | Heather Chauncy |
Nan Chauncy (28 May 1900 – 1 May 1970) was a British-born Australian children's writer.
Chauncy was born Nancen Beryl Masterman in Northwood, Middlesex (now in London), and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia, with her family in 1912, when her engineer father was offered a job with the Hobart City Council. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School in Hobart. In 1914, the family moved to the rural community of Bagdad, where they grew apple trees. The bush setting of Bagdad, including a bushranger's cave, would inspire some of her future writing, and also a lifelong involvement with the Australian Girl Guides movement. Initially organising Guide meetings and camps at her brother's Bagdad property, Chauncy started her own Guide troop in Claremont where she worked as a women's welfare officer at the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory from 1925.
Chauncy returned to England in 1930, where she trained as a Girl Guide at Foxlease House in Lyndhurst, Hampshire. She also studied and practiced writing, while living on a houseboat on the River Thames. In 1934, she travelled to Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union, and taught winter classes in English language at a Girl Guide school in Denmark.
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