Margaret Irwin (1889–1967)
Autor(a) de Young Bess
About the Author
Image credit: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
Séries
Obras por Margaret Irwin
Associated Works
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contribuidor — 97 exemplares
Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 (Handheld Classics) (2019) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Irwin, Margaret
- Nome legal
- Irwin, Margaret Emma Faith
- Data de nascimento
- 1889-03-27
- Data de falecimento
- 1967-12-11
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Highgate, London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University
Clifton High School, Bristol - Ocupações
- historical novelist
- Relações
- Monsell, J. R. (husband|1927-1952|his death)
Monsell, Elinor (sister-in-law)
Wedgwood, Cicely Veronica (friend)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Margaret Emma Faith Irwin was born at Highgate in London. Following the deaths of her parents in childhood, she was raised by a paternal uncle, a classical scholar. She attended the Clifton School in Bristol and then Oxford University. In 1929, she married John Robert Monsell, an artist and illustrator of children’s books. Margaret Irwin began publishing stories in 1924, and was awarded first prize in the Historical Novel Competition organized by the London publishers Chatto and Windus for her story None So Pretty in 1930. She went on to establish herself as a successful historical novelist, recognized by readers and critics for her considerable talent. The dustjackets of her books were designed by her husband. Margaret Irwin was a friend of the history scholar and writer Dame Cicely Veronica (C.V.) Wedgwood.
Membros
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Book" by Margaret Irwin em The Weird Tradition (Dezembro 2021)
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 27
- Also by
- 25
- Membros
- 1,366
- Popularidade
- #18,821
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 29
- ISBN
- 100
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 2