The Worst Witch
"The Worst Witch" () was first published in 1974 by Allison & Busby, who took the book on after it had been turned down by three other publishers.
Evangeline Walton
Walton's "Witch House" was written in the mid- to late-1930s and published in 1945 as the first volume in “The Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror”. It is an occult horror story set in New England. In 1956, she published "The Cross and the Sword", a novel set during the Danish conquest of England and the destruction of its Celtic culture.