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<p>Elisabeth Beresford, the writer best known for creating The Wombles, has died.</p>
<p>The 84-year-old invented the characters of the Wombles of Wimbledon Common, who became household names in the 1970s.</p>
<p>She died at 10.30pm on Friday in the Mignot Memorial Hospital on Alderney in the Channel Islands after suffering heart failure, her son Marcus Robertson said.</p>
<p>Her father was the writer JD Beresford, a successful novelist who also worked as a book reviewer for many newspapers.</p>
<p>Her parents&#8217; friends included HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and Somerset Maugham.</p>
<p>After 18 months as a Wren, she started work as a ghost writer, specialising in writing speeches, including for Conservative MPs, and met Sir Winston Churchill.</p>
<p>She began training as a journalist and wrote radio, film and television columns and worked for the BBC as a radio reporter.</p>
<p>Visiting Australia, South Africa and the West Indies with her sports commentator husband Max Robertson led to children&#8217;s books and two TV series &#8211; Seven Days To Sydney and Come To The Caribbean.</p>
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