Margaret Crosland (writer)

Margaret Crosland (born 17 June 1920) is an English literary biographer and translator.[1] She has also used the pseudonym Leonard de Saint-Yves.

Born in Shropshire, Crosland has translated both French and Italian literature. She has written biographies of Colette, Jean Cocteau Simone de Beauvoir and Edith Piaf, and translated work by writers including the Marquis de Sade, Émile Zola, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese. She has also written book-length studies of women's writing in Britain and France.[2]

Works

Translations

From French
From Italian

Other writing

References

  1. Sleeman, Elizabeth, ed. (2002). The International Who's Who of Women 2002 (3rd ed.). Europa Publications Limited. ISBN 1857431227.
  2. Robin Healey (1998). Twentieth Century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929 - 1997. University of Toronto Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8020-0800-8. Retrieved 13 May 2013.