Margaret Cole


Margaret Cole

Margaret Cole in 1944-45 by Stella Bowen
Margaret Cole in 1944-45 by Stella Bowen
BornMargaret Isabel Postgate
6 May 1893
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died7 May 1980(1980-05-07) (aged 87)
United Kingdom
OccupationWriter, politician
Alma materRoedean School
Girton College, Cambridge
GenreMystery, biography
Spouse
(m. 1918; died 1959)
Relatives

Dame Margaret Isabel Cole DBE (née Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly with her husband, G. D. H. Cole. She went on to hold important posts in London government after the Second World War.