Margaret Stuart (poet)

Olympic medal record
Art competitions
Silver	1924 Paris	Literature

Dorothy Margaret Stuart, née Browne (1889, Meerbrook, Staffordshire – September 14, 1963) was a British poet and writer.^[1]

In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Fencers' song" cycle, Sword Songs.^[2]

Her other works include literary and historical biographies, historical non-fiction particularly concentrating on the lives of women and children, and history stories for children. She was a member of the English Association from 1930 onwards, edited its News-Letter and contributed essays and book reviews to its journal, English.^[3]

Selected bibliography

• Lyrics of Old London (1915)
• Sword Songs (1925)
• The Boy Through the Ages (1926)
• The Book of Other Lands (1927)
• The Girl Through the Ages (1933)
• Horace Walpole (1937)
• Chivalry and Social Life in the Middle Ages (1927)
• Christina Rossetti (1930)
• Men and Women of Plantagenet England (1932)
• The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933)
• Sir Walter Scott: Some Centenary Reflections (1934)
• The King's Service (1935)
• Molly Lepell: Lady Hervey (1936)
• King George the Sixth (1937)
• The Daughters of George III (1939)
• A Child's Day Through the Ages (1941)
• The Children's Chronicle (1944)
• Historic Cavalcade (1945)
• The English Abigail (1946)
• The Young Clavengers (1947)
• The Five Wishes (1950)
• Daughter of England: A New Study of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Her Family (1951)
• The Story of William the Conqueror (1952)
• Portrait of the Prince Regent (1953)
• Dearest Bess (1955)
• London Through the Ages (1956)
• A Book of Cats: Legendary, Literary and Historical (1959)

Notes

1. ^ Pine, L. G., ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960, p.372
2. ^ Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxxi.
3. ^ Obituary in English, Volume 14, Issue 84, Autumn 1963

External links

• Olympic Profile
• Works by or about Margaret Stuart (poet) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Stuart, Margaret
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Date of birth	1889
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Date of death	September 14, 1963
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