Phyllis Matthewman (née Barton) (19 January 1896 – 1979), was a British writer of children's books, mostly boarding school stories, and adult fiction.
Matthewman was born in Leeds, the elder daughter of Thomas Barton, an insurance manager, and Ada Mary (née Pollard). She had a sister, Joyce. In 1930 she married Sydney Matthewman, a literary agent, who ran (or whose father ran) the Swan Press in Leeds. They had no children. In 1964, her long-time friend Elinor Brent-Dyer left the large Victorian villa at which she had previously run a school in order to live with the Matthewmans, which she did until her death in 1969. After first renting half of a house called Albury Edge at Redhill, Surrey, they bought a house together, Gryphons, also at Redhill, in 1965. Phyllis's aunt, who knew the Dyer family, had introduced them in childhood. Sydney Matthewman served as Brent-Dyer's agent.
Matthewman also published under the names Kathryn Surrey and Jacqueline Yorke.
Includes letters to and from the printer, Sydney Matthewman
Sydney Matthewman (1902-?), poet and printer, established the Swan Press in Leeds in the 1920s
In 1930 she married Sydney Matthewman, a well-read man with literary ambitions, whose father ran the Swan Press in Leeds
