Margaret Irwin

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Margaret Irwin
Born	1889 London, England
Died	11 December 1967
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Writing period	1924-1969
Genres	Historical, Biography, horror

Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (1889 — 11 December 1967) was a English author of several important historical novels, as well as a factual Biography of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Born in London, England, Irwin educated at Clifton College in Bristol, she went on to study at Oxford University before marrying the artist John Robert Monsell in 1929. She had already begun writing books and short stories in the early 1920s.

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.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Single Novels 1.2 Queen Elizabeth Trilogy 1.3 Biography 2 Film Adaptations 3 References

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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)

[edit] Queen Elizabeth Trilogy

• Young Bess (1944)
• Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948)
• Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953)

[edit] Biography

• That Great Lucifer: A Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (1960)

[edit] Film Adaptations

• Young Bess (1953) an adaptation of the book of ths same title and Elizabeth, Captive Princess.

[edit] References

• Twentieth century romance and Historical Writers. St James Press 1990