She worked for Oxford University Press from 1956 to 1964, contributing two volumes to the Oxford Sheldonian English Series for secondary schoolchildren: Coleridge and the Wordsworths, 1953, and Tennyson in 1954. In 1949, Burton published a biography of Barbara Bodichon, the 19th-century feminist, artist and educationalist.
From 1925 to 1936, she attended Headington School, Oxford and then St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received an honours degree in English.
She was born Hester Wood-Hill on 6 December 1913, in Beccles, Suffolk, where her father was elected town Mayor three times. Flood waters at Erith, 1953 which killed 41 people in Suffolk and inspired Burton's novel The Great Gale.
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