Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster (* 25. Mai 1938 in Carlisle) ist eine britische Lehrerin, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin. Sie studierte Geschichte am Somerville College in Oxford. Neben ihren bei Penguin veröffentlichten Romanen erschienen Biographien. 1975 wurde sie Mitglied der Royal Society of Literature.

Sie ist mit dem Schriftsteller und Radiojournalisten Hunter Davies verheiratet und hat drei Kinder.

Ihre Romane Das Vermächtnis meiner Mutter, Ich warte darauf, dass etwas geschieht, Schattenkinder und Dieses so kostbare Leben wurden von Roseli[1] und Saskia Bontjes van Beek[2] ins Deutsche übertragen.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Romane

  • 1964 Dames' Delight
  • 1965 The Bogeyman
  • 1965 Georgy Girl
  • 1967 The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff
  • 1967 A Girl called Fathom
  • 1968 The Park
  • 1969 Miss Owen-Owen is at Home
  • 1970 Fenella Phizackerley
  • 1971 Mr Bone's Retreat
  • 1974 The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury
  • 1979 Mother Can You Hear Me?
  • 1980 The Bride of Lowther Fell: a Romance
  • 1981 Marital Rites
  • 1986 Private Papers
  • 1989 Have the Men Had Enough?
  • 1990 Lady's Maid (
  • 1991 The Battle for Christabel
  • 1994 Mother's Boys
  • 1996 Shadow Baby
  • 1999 The Memory Box
  • 2003 Diary of an Ordinary Woman 1914–1995
  • 2005 Is There Anything You Want?
  • 2006 Keeping the World Away
  • 2007 Over

Memoiren und Historien

  • 1995 Hidden Lives: a Family Memoir
  • 1998 Precious Lives
  • 1973 The Rash Adventurer: the rise and fall of Charles Edward Stuart
  • 1978 Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 1984 Significant Sisters: the Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839–1939
  • 1988 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a biography
  • 1993 Daphne du Maurier
  • 1997 Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831–1931
  • 2001 Good Wives?: Mary, Fanny, Jennie & Me 1845–2001

Drehbücher

Einzelnachweise

  1. ↑ http://www.reliwa.de/search?mode=books&type=author_search&word=Roseli+Bontjes+van+Beek
  2. ↑ http://www.reliwa.de/search?mode=books&type=author_search&word=Saskia+Bontjes+van+Beek

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