Editing Monica Edwards (section)

{{Short description|English children's writer}}
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{{ infobox writer
| name          = Monica Edwards
| image         = BOPF small.jpg
| imagesize     = 240px
| alt           = Photo of Monica Edwards at her writing desk in 1966.
| caption       = Edwards in 1966 (back cover, ''The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm'')
| pseudonym     =
| birth_name    = Monica le Doux Newton
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1912|11|8}}
| birth_place   = [[Belper]], [[Derbyshire]], United Kingdom
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1998|1|18|1912|11|8}}
| death_place   = Surrey
| resting_place = Ashes scattered in Vanhurst Copse, [[Thursley]], Surrey, U.K.
| occupation    = Author, naturalist and farmer
| language      = 
| nationality   = British
| ethnicity     =
| citizenship   =
| education     = '''[[Wakefield Girls' High School]]''' (September 1920 – July 1921)<br />'''[[St Brandon's School]], Bristol''' (January 1928 – April 1928)
| alma_mater    =
| period        = 1947–1976
| genre         = [[Young adult fiction]], [[natural history]]
| subject       =
| movement      =
| notableworks  = ''Wish for a Pony'' (1947) <br />''Storm Ahead'' (1953)<br />''No Going Back'' (1960) <br />''The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm'' (1966)
| spouse        = William ("Bill") Ferdinand Edwards
| partner       =
| children      =
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| signature     = ME_signature.jpg
| signature_alt =
| website       = {{URL|monicaedwards.co.uk}}
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}}

'''Monica Edwards''' (née '''Monica le Doux Newton'''; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998)<ref name="indy">{{cite news |last1=Tucker |first1=Nicholas |title=Obituary: Monica Edwards |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-monica-edwards-1144457.html |access-date=9 November 2019 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=13 February 1998}}</ref> was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.