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Margaret Forster (born 25 May 1938) is an English author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949–1956), and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960. After a short period as a teacher at Barnsbury Girls' School in Islington, north London (1961–1963), she has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines. She was a member of the BBC Advisory Committee on the Social Effects of Television (1975–1977), the Arts Council Literary Panel (1978–1981), and chief reviewer for non-fiction in the ''Evening Standard'' (1977–1980). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1975. Forster is married to the writer, journalist and broadcaster Hunter Davies. They live in London and in the Lake District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Forster profile )〕 She is the author of many successful novels, including ''Georgy Girl'' (1965, filmed in 1966 and adapted for a short-lived 1970 Broadway musical), ''Lady's Maid'' (1990), ''Diary of an Ordinary Woman'' (2003), ''Have the Men Had Enough?'' (1989) and ''The Memory Box'' (1999); two memoirs, ''Hidden Lives'' (1995) and ''Precious Lives'' (1998); and several acclaimed biographies, most recently ''Good Wives'' (2001) and a fictionalised biography of the artist Gwen John, ''Keeping the World Away'' (2006). She wrote ''Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin'' (1997), an account of the Carr's biscuit factory in Carlisle. She has won awards for both her fiction and non-fiction works: ''Elizabeth Barrett Browning: a Biography'' (Heinemann Award, 1989); ''Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller'' (Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction, 1993 – Fawcett Society Book Prize, 1994); ''Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: a Family and Their Times 1831–1931'' (Lex Prize of The Global Business Book Award, 1997); ''Precious Lives'' (J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, 1999). ==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) *2013 ''The Unknown Bridesmaid'' (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)', (in ) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (ed. ) (Oxford University Press) *2006 ''BP Portrait Award 2006: Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery'' (Introductory essay by Margaret Forster ) (National Portrait Gallery) ISBN 1-85514-373-9 *2006 'Character studies (portraiture )', ''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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Forster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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