I very much loved Ruth M. Arthur when I was about 13. Requiem for a Princess was a particular favourite! I also really liked A Candle for her Room which was quite creepy.
The first really complete story I ever wrote was incredibly derivative of Requiem - not "fanfic" but the kind of thing young teenagers write when they've just read something else that they love - like Polly's riff on LOR in Fire and Hemlock :) It was about a girl who plays "Greensleeves" on the recorder and goes back in time to the Elizabethan era and meets a little girl who dies of smallpox or the plague or something (my history was only rather vague).
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The first really complete story I ever wrote was incredibly derivative of Requiem - not "fanfic" but the kind of thing young teenagers write when they've just read something else that they love - like Polly's riff on LOR in Fire and Hemlock :) It was about a girl who plays "Greensleeves" on the recorder and goes back in time to the Elizabethan era and meets a little girl who dies of smallpox or the plague or something (my history was only rather vague).