Margaret Lane

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Margaret Winifred Lane (born June 23, 1907 ; died February 14, 1994 ), also Margaret Lane Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon was a British journalist, writer and biographer. She became known as the biographer of the British crime writer Edgar Wallace , whose son Bryan Edgar Wallace she married in 1934.

biography

Margaret Lane worked as a journalist and reporter for the British daily Daily Express from 1928 to 1931 before becoming a correspondent for the International News Service from 1931 to 1931 . She then returned to the Daily Mail until 1938. From 1958 to 1960 Lane chaired the Women's Press Club, from 1959 to 1961 she headed the Dickens Fellowship, 1971 the Johnson Society, 1975 to 1979 the Bronte Society and from 1985 to 1988 the Jane Austen Society.

In addition to this activity, she wrote several books, including the first comprehensive biography of the British crime writer Edgar Wallace in 1938 under the title Edgar Wallace: the biography of a phenomenon. In 1934 she married his son Bryan Edgar Wallace, but the marriage was divorced in 1939. In 1944 she married Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon and received the title of one, and had two daughters with him: Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born March 5, 1945) and Lady Caroline Harriet Hastings (born June 12, 1946).

Works (selection)

Margaret Lane has published several books and biographies including:

  • Faith, Hope, No Charity (Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse) , 1935
  • At Last the Island , 1937
  • Edgar Wallace: the biography of a phenomenon , 1938
  • Where Helen Lies , 1944
  • The Tale of Beatrix Potter , 1946 (revised 1985)
  • The Bronte Story , 1953
  • A Crown of Convolvulus , 1954
  • A Calabash of Diamonds , 1961
  • Frances Wright and the Great Experiment , 1971
  • Samuel Johnson and his World , 1975
  • Flora Thompson , 1976
  • The Magic Years of Beatrix Potter , 1978
  • The Drug-Like Bronte Dream , 1981;

supporting documents

  1. ^ "Lane, Margaret." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: Das Edgar-Wallace-Lexikon. Life - work - films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; P. 381. ISBN 3-89602-508-2
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary: Margaret Lane. In: The Independent, February 17, 1994; accessed on May 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Literature by and about Margaret Lane in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

  • "Lane, Margaret." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon. Life - work - films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; P. 381. ISBN 3-89602-508-2

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personal data
SURNAME Lane, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, Margaret Winifred; Margaret Lane Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, writer and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1907
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1994