Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster (born May 25, 1938 in Carlisle , † February 8, 2016 in London ) was a British teacher, journalist and writer.

biography

She studied history at Somerville College , Oxford . Biographies appeared alongside her novels published by Penguin Books . In 1975 she became a member of the Royal Society of Literature .

She was married to the writer and radio journalist Hunter Davies and had three children.

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Novels

• 1979 Mother Can You Hear Me?
  • It is the daughters that are eaten . Translated by Margarete Längfeld, Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1982.
• 1989 Have the Men Had Enough?
  • I think I'm going to the highlands . Translated by Sylvia Höfer, Arche Verlag , Zurich 1990.
• 1990 Lady's Maid
  • The servant . Translated by Dietlind Kaiser, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1992.
• 1991 Battle for Christabel
  • Christabel . Übers. Dietlind Kaiser, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1991.
• 1994 Mother's Boys
  • Nothing will be the same anymore . Translated by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1996.
• 1996 Shadow Baby
  • Shadow children . Translated by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2001.
• 1999 The Memory Box
  • My mother's legacy . Translated by Roseli Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1999.
• 2003 Diary of an Ordinary Woman 1914-1995
  • I am waiting for something to happen . Translated by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-7160-2338-8 . Audio book read by Eva Mattes , Arche Verlag 2005
• 2006 Keeping the World Away
  • One room, six women and a picture . Translated by Brigitte Walitzek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-7160-2355-8 .
• 2007 over
  • Miranda . Translated by Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7160-2371-6 .
• 2010 Isa and May
  • Isa & May . Translated by Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7160-2638-0 .
• 2013 The Unknown Bridesmaid
  • The dark child . Translated by Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7160-2699-1 .

Not translated

• 1964 Dames' Delight
• 1965 The Bogeyman
• 1965 Georgy Girl
• 1967 Travels of Maudie Tipstaff
• 1967 Girl Called Fathom
• 1968 The Park
• 1969 Miss Owen-Owen is at Home
• 1970 Fenella Phizackerley
• 1971 Mr Bone's Retreat
• 1974 Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury
• 1976 Malowana Lala
• 1980 The Bride of Lowther Fell
• 1981 Marital Rites
• 1986 Private Papers
• 2005 Is There Anything You Want?

Memoirs and Histories

• 1973 The Rash Adventurer: the rise and fall of Charles Edward Stuart
• 1978 Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray
• 1984 Significant Sisters: the Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839-1939
• 1988 Elizabeth Barrett Browning : a biography
• 1993 Daphne du Maurier : the Secret Life of the Renewned Storyteller
  • Daphne du Maurier: a life . Translated by Einar Schlereth & Brigitte Beier, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1994.
• 1995 Hidden Lives: a Family Memoir
  • Family secrets . Translated by Dietlind Kaiser, Arche Verlag, Zurich 1997.
• 1998 Precious Lives , sequel to Hidden Lives
  • This so precious life . Translated by Roseli and Saskia Bontjes van Beek, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-7160-2296-9 .
• 1997 Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831-1931
• 2001 Good Wives? Mary, Fanny, Jennie & Me 1845-2001
• 2014 My Life in Houses
  • My life in houses . Translated by Susanne Höbel, Arche Verlag, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7160-2736-3 .

Scripts

• 1966 Georgy Girl
• 2007 Daphne

Awards

• 2007 Roman Over nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the Best Novel category

Web links

• Literature by and about Margaret Forster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margaret Forster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Margaret Forster. In: fantasticfiction.co.uk. (English)
• Biography. In: contemporarywriters.com. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Author Margaret Forster dies from cancer aged 77. In: bbc.com. February 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2016.