1938
Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (died 2016)
Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (died 2016)
Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (died 2016)
Margaret Forster
English novelist and biographer (1938–2016)
- Born
- 1938
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.