Marghanita Laski

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Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.

Born in Manchester, England, to a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals (Neville Laski was her father, Moses Gaster her grandfather and Harold Laski her uncle), she worked in fashion, then studied English at Oxford.

She married publisher John Howard, in Paris, and worked in journalism. After her son and daughter were born, she began writing in earnest.

An avowed atheist [1], she was also a keen supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [2]. Her play, The Offshore Island, is about nuclear warfare.

She was a panellist on the popular UK BBC panel show What's My Line? that ran from 1951 to 1963.

Marghanita Laski lived in Hampstead.

[edit] Works

  • Love on the Supertax (1944) novel
  • Stories of Adventure (1946)
  • The Patchwork Book (1946) editor
  • Victorian Tales for Girls (1947) editor
  • Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right (1948)
  • Little Boy Lost (1949) novel
  • Toasted English (1949)
  • Mrs Ewing, Mrs Molesworth and Mrs Hodgson Burnett (1950) biography
  • The Village (1952) novel
  • The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953) novel
  • Apologies (1955)
  • The Offshore Island (1959) play
  • Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences (1961)
  • A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge (1965) editor with Georgina Battiscombe
  • Jane Austen and Her World (1969)
  • God and Man (1971) with Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
  • George Eliot and Her World (1973)
  • Kipling's English History (1974) Rudyard Kipling poems, editor
  • Everyday Ecstasy (1980)
  • Ferry, the Jerusalem Cat (1983)
  • From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling Abroad and at Home (1987)
  • Common Ground: An Anthology (1989) editor
  • To Bed with Grand Music (2001)

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