Marghanita Laski

Marghanita Laski (born October 24, 1915 in Manchester ; died February 6, 1988 in London ) was a British journalist and writer.

Life

Marghanita Laski came from a Jewish intellectual family, her uncle was Harold Laski , a grandfather of Moses Gaster . Her father Neville Laski was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1933 to 1940.

Laski visited the private school St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith and studied English at Somerville College in Oxford . She married the publisher John Eldred Howard in 1937, they had two children and lived in Hampstead Heath and the south of France.

Laski's first novel was published in 1944. She wrote literary biographies, plays, short stories and worked for the radio. Laski was a participant in several panel shows for the BBC television network in the 1950s and 1960s , but also produced programs about Rudyard Kipling . She wrote reviews for The Observer , particularly on science fiction literature.

Laski collected around 250,000 references from retail catalogs and crime literature on index cards for the Oxford English Dictionary by 1986.

Laski was active in the Arts Council from 1979 and its vice-president from 1982 to 1986.

Laski was an active supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .

Works (selection)

Love on the Supertax . Novel. 1944
(Ed.): Stories of Adventure . 1946
(Ed.): The Patchwork Book . 1946
Sarah Russell (pseudonym): To Bed with Grand Music . 1946
(Ed.): Victorian Tales for Girls . 1947
Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right . 1948
Little Boy Lost . Novel. 1949
Toasted English . 1949
Mrs Ewing, Mrs Molesworth and Mrs Hodgson Burnett . 1950
The Village . Novel. 1952
The Victorian Chaise-longue . Novel. 1953
The Tower . Short story. 1955
Apologies . 1955
The Offshore Island . Drama. 1959 (topic nuclear war )
Ecstasy: a Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences . 1961
with Georgina Battiscombe (Ed.): A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge . 1965
Jane Austen and her world . New York: Viking Press, 1969
with Anthony von Sourozh : God and Man . 1971
George Eliot and Her World . 1973
(Ed.): Kipling's English History . Poems. 1974
Everyday ecstasy . 1980
Ferry, the Jerusalem Cat . 1983
From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling Abroad and at Home . Biography. 1987
Common Ground: an Anthology . 1989
To Bed with Grand Music . 2001 (posthumous)

photo

portrait not in the public domain , in the English Wikipedia

literature

RW Burchfield : Laski, Marghanita (1915-1988) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2007 Link

Web links

Literature by and about Marghanita Laski in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Marghanita Laski in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Marghanita Laski in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the «Anti-Semitic International» . Zurich: Chronos, 2017. Short biography on Neville Jonas Laski on page 543f.

personal data
SURNAME	Laski, Marghanita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1988
Place of death	London

[1] Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the «Anti-Semitic International» . Zurich: Chronos, 2017. Short biography on Neville Jonas Laski on page 543f.