Margaret Forster | |
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Born | Carlisle, England | 25 May 1938
Died | 8 February 2016 London, England | (aged 77)
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Language | English |
Genre | Fiction |
Years active | 1961โ2015 |
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Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 โ 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.