Diana Gardner

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Diana Gardner (1913–1997) was a writer, wood engraver and book illustrator who studied at the Westminster School of Art.{{cite web |title=Diana Gardner |url=https://persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/diana-gardner |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109043955/https://persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/diana-gardner |archive-date=9 November 2022 |accessdate=8 December 2016 |website=Persephone Books}} Her first short story was published in Horizon in 1940, and later works included Halfway Down the Cliff (1946) and The Indian Woman (1954). In the 1960s she began work as a full-time painter working with ink and watercolours, and her work was exhibited.{{cite web|url=http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-woman-novelist-and-other-stories.html|title=The Woman Novelist and Other Stories|publisher=Persephone Books|accessdate=11 December 2016 |language=}}{{cite web|url=https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/the-woman-novelist-and-other-stories-diana-gardner-2006/|title=The Woman Novelist and other stories – Diana Gardner (2006)|date=10 February 2016 |publisher=Heavenali|accessdate=11 December 2016 |language=}}