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Savery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Constance Savery British childrens writer, novelist, poet

Constance Winifred Savery was a British author of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles. She was selected for the initial issue of the long-running series entitled The Junior Book of Authors (1951–2008) and for the first, 1971, volume of Anne Commire's Something About the Author, which reached volume 320 in 2018. Savery's World War II novel, Enemy Brothers, received praise and remains in print. In 1980, at age eighty-two, she completed a Charlotte Brontë two-chapter fragment, which was published as "Emma by Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady". The book was translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.

Gilbert M. Savery was an American journalist. He worked for Lincoln Journal Star from 1941 to 1985. Savery won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his public service efforts.

Henry Savery Transported convict, first Australian novelist

Henry Savery was a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania, and Australia's first novelist. It is generally agreed that his writing is more important for its historical value than its literary merit.

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Savery Hotel

The Savery Hotel, now known as the Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel, is a historic building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, United States. This is the third hotel in the city with that name and the second at this location. The prominent Chicago hotel design firm H.L. Stevens & Company designed the 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style, which was a rare choice for commercial architecture in Des Moines. The hotel is an eleven-story brick building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. Opened in 1919, it has additions completed in 1952 and 1953. Across the alley to the west is an annex that was completed c. 1899 for the previous hotel building. During World War II, Des Moines was the location for the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) training center. The Savory augmented the facilities at Fort Des Moines and served as the induction center, barracks, mess hall, and classrooms from 1942 to 1945.

Savery Pond is a 33-acre (130,000 m2) pond in Ellisville section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the Eastland Heights neighborhood, approximately 2,000 feet (610 m) from Route 3A off Old Sandwich Road. Indian Head Campground maintains a beach along the southern shore of the pond.

Savery, Wyoming Unincorporated community in Wyoming, United States

Savery is an unincorporated community in southeastern Carbon County, Wyoming, United States, on the upper Little Snake River. It lies along WYO 70 south of the city of Rawlins, the county seat of Carbon County. Its elevation is 6,473 feet (1,973 m). Although Savery is unincorporated, it has a post office with ZIP code 82332, and is home to the Little Snake River Museum.

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