Margaret Storm Jameson

Margaret Storm Jameson (born January 8, 1891 in Whitby , † September 30, 1986 ) was an English writer .

Storm Jameson moved to London after graduating from Leeds University . She taught here for a while before becoming a full-time writer. She became known for her short stories. Even after her marriage to the historian and writer Guy Chapman, she continued to publish under her maiden name.

She was a member of the Labor Party and campaigned early on for fellow writers who had fled Germany. In 1933 she convinced Lilo Linke , with whom she had been in contact since 1931, to turn her back on Nazi Germany and go to England.

In 1939 Margaret Storm Jameson became Chair of the British PEN Center .

Works

• The Pot Boils (1919)
• The Happy Highways (1920)
• Modern Drama in Europe (1920)
• The Clash (1922)
• Lady Susan and Life: An Indiscretion (1923)
• The Pitiful Wife (1923)
• Three Kingdoms (1926)
• The Lovely Ship (1927) The Triumph of Time I
• Farewell to Youth (1928)
• The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson (1929)
• The Voyage Home (1930) The Triumph of Time II
• The Decline of Merry England (1930)
• A Richer Dust (1931) The Triumph of Time III (The Trilogy in German: Triumph der Zeit )
• The Single Heart (1932)
• That Was Yesterday (1932)
• Women Against Men (1933)
• No Time Like the Present (1933) autobiography
• A Day Off (1933)
• Company Parade (1934)
• Mirror in Darkness (1934)
• Love in Winter (1935)
• Challenge to Death (1935) essays, as editor
• None Turn Back (1936)
• In the Second Year (1936)
• The Moon is Making (1937)
• Delicate Monsters (1937)
• Here Comes a Candle (1938)
• The Novel in Contemporary Life (1938)
• Farewell Night, Welcome Day (1939)
• Civil Journey (1939)
• Cousin Honoré (1940) (German a mansion in Alsace )
• Europe to Let (1940)
• The End of This War (1941)
• The Fort (1942)
• Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major (1942)
• London Calling: A Salute to America (1942)
• Cloudless May (1943) (Dt. Clear May )
• The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell (1945)
• The Other Side (1946) (Dt. The other side )
• Before the Crossing (1947)
• The Black Laurel (1947)
• The Moment Of Truth (1949)
• The Writer's Situation (1950) Essays
• The Hidden River (1952)
• The Green Man (1952)
• The Intruder (1956)
• A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill (1957) (Ger. The Hudson Affair )
• A Ulysses Too Many (1958)
• The Last Score, or the Private Life of Sir Richard Ormston (1961) (Ger. Der Gouverneur )
• Morley Roberts: The Last Eminent Victorian (1961)
• The Road from the Monument (1962)
• A Month Soon Goes (1962)
• The Aristide Case (1964)
• The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1966)
• The White Crow (1968)
• Journey from the North (1969) 2 vols., Autobiography
• Parthian Words (1970)
• There Will Be A Short Interval (1973)
• Speaking of Stendhal (1979)