Early Life
The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Starting school late at the age of eight because of illness, she was educated at the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, and went on to Girton College, Cambridge, after winning a scholarship to read English and History there.
After gaining her degree, she left university and moved to London where she found work as a civil servant. She wrote and produced schools radio programmes for the BBC, where she remained for thirteen years. She was children's editor at the Oxford University Press from 1958 to 1960 and at the André Deutsch publishing house from 1960 to 1967.
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