- Margaret Irwin
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Margaret Irwin Born 1889
London, EnglandDied 11 December 1969 Occupation Novelist Nationality United Kingdom Period 1924-1969 Genres Historical, Biography, horror Notable work(s) Young Bess Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (1889 — 11 December 1969) was an English author of several important historical novels, as well as a factual biography of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Biography
Irwin was born in London, England, and educated at Clifton High School in Bristol, and at Oxford University. She began writing books and short stories in the early 1920s. She married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell in 1929.
Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of their historical research, and she became a noted authority on the Elizabethan and early Stewart era. One of her novels, Young Bess about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I, was made into a movie starring Jean Simmons.
Bibliography
Single Novels
- Still She Wished for Company (1924)
- These Mortals (1925)
- Knock Four Times (1927)
- Fire Down Below (1928)
- Royal Flush (1932)
- The Stranger Prince: The Story of Rupert of the Rhine (1938)
- The Bride: The Story of Louise And Montrose (1939)
- The Gay Galliard: The Story of Mary Queen of Scots (1941) Later published as The Galliard.
- Royal Flush: The Story of Minette (1948)
- The Proud Servant: A Story of Montrose (1949)
- The Heart's Memory (1951)
- Hidden Splendour (1952)
- None So Pretty: Or, the Story of Mr. Cork (1953)
Queen Elizabeth Trilogy
- Young Bess (1944)
- Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948)
- Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953)
Short Stories
- Bloodstock and Other Stories (1953)
Biography
- That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1960)
Film Adaptations
- Young Bess (1953) an adaptation of the book of the same title and Elizabeth, Captive Princess.
- "[The Doughty Plot] [1]" (1962) An episode of the Television series "Sir Francis Drake" adapted from her own story and screenplay co-written by Margaret Irwin.
References
- Twentieth century romance and Historical Writers. St James Press, 1990
Categories:- 1889 births
- 1969 deaths
- English novelists
- English romantic fiction writers
- Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages
- Writers of historical romances
- People educated at Clifton High School (Bristol)
- English writer stubs
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