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Margaret Forster (English writer, historian and critic)

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Forster, Margaret
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Date of birth
1938-05-25
Place of birth
Carlisle
Date of death
2016-02-08
Place of death
London

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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.

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English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic.

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