Margaret Forster | |
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| Born | 25 May 1938 Carlisle, England |
| Died | 8 February 2016 (aged 77) London, England |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Years active | 1961−2015 |
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Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.