Margaret Forster - Works

Works

Fiction
  • 1964 Dames' Delight (Jonathan Cape)
  • 1965 The Bogeyman (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1965 Georgy Girl (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1967 The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1967 A Girl called Fathom (Heinemann)
  • 1968 The Park (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1969 Miss Owen-Owen is at Home (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1970 Fenella Phizackerley (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1971 Mr Bone's Retreat (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1974 The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1979 Mother Can You Hear Me? (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1980 The Bride of Lowther Fell: a Romance (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1981 Marital Rites (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1986 Private Papers (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1989 Have the Men Had Enough? (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1990 Lady's Maid (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1991 The Battle for Christabel (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1994 Mother's Boys (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1996 Shadow Baby (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1999 The Memory Box (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2003 Diary of an Ordinary Woman 1914-1995 (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2005 Is There Anything You Want? (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2006 Keeping the World Away (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2007 Over (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2010 Isa and May (Chatto & Windus)
Biography and history
  • 1973 The Rash Adventurer: the rise and fall of Charles Edward Stuart (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1978 Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1984 Significant Sisters: the Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839–1939 (Secker & Warburg)
  • 1988 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a biography (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1993 Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1997 Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831–1931 (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2001 Good Wives?: Mary, Fanny, Jennie & Me 1845–2001 (Chatto & Windus)
  • 2004 'Du Maurier, Dame Daphne (1907–1989)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press)
  • 2006 BP Portrait Award 2006: Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (National Portrait Gallery) ISBN 1-85514-373-9
  • 2006 'Character studies ', The Guardian, 10 June 2006 online version
Family memoirs/autobiography
  • 1995 Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir (Viking)
  • 1998 Precious Lives (Chatto & Windus)
Literary editions
  • 1984 Drawn from Life: the Journalism of William Makepeace Thackeray (Folio Society)
  • 1988 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected poems (Chatto & Windus)
  • 1991 Virginia Woolf, Flush: a biography (1933) New intro. by Margaret Forster (Hogarth Press)
Criticism and biography of Margaret Forster
  • Bordelon, David, 'Margaret Forster', in Twentieth Century Literary Biographers (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol.155) (Deroit: Gale, 1995), pp. 76–87
  • 'Forster, Margaret', in The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6th ed.rev.,ed. Margaret Drabble. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • Greenstreet, Rosanna, 'My perfect weekend: Margaret Forster', The Times, 19 December 1992
  • Jones, Nigel, 'Loss is more: an interview with Margaret Forster', Daily Mail, 31 August 2007 Online version
  • 'Margaret Forster', in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.149 (Detroit: Gale, 2002), pp 62–107
  • 'Margaret Forster', in Contemporary British Novelists, ed. Nick Rennison (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 72–76, ISBN 0-415-21708-3
  • Moseley, Merritt, 'Margaret Forster' in British and Irish Novelists since 1960 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol.271) (Deroit: Gale, 2003), pp. 139–155
  • Patterson, Christina, 'A life less ordinary: Margaret Forster worries, after 30 books, that she loves writing too much', The Independent, 15 March 2003, 20-21
  • Taylor, Annie, 'The difference a day made (14 May 1957) ...Margaret Forster was on a mission', The Guardian, 6 June 1996
  • 'Margaret Forster: An Introduction' by Kathleen Jones, published by Northern Lights 2003 ISBN 0-905404-92-0
  • 'Margaret Forster: A Life in Books' by Kathleen Jones, published by The Book Mill 2012 ISBN 978-0-9567303-8-1

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