Margaret Forster

] (Oxford University Press)
2006 BP Portrait Award 2006: Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery [ Introductory essay by Margaret Forster] (National Portrait Gallery) ISBN 1-85514-373-9
2006 'Character studies [on portraiture]' The Guardian 10 June 2006 online version
Family memoirs/autobiography
1995 Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir (Viking)
1998 Precious Lives (Chatto & Windus)
Literary editions
1984 Drawn from Life: the Journalism of William Makepeace Thackeray (Folio Society)
1988 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Selected poems (Chatto & Windus)
1991 Virginia Woolf Flush: a biography (1933) New intro. She is the author of many successful novels including Georgy Girl (1965) (filmed in 1966 and adapted for a short-lived 1970 Broadway musical) Lady's Maid (1990) Diary of an Ordinary Woman (2003) Have the Men Had Enough? (1989) and The Memory Box (1999) two memoirs Hidden Lives (1995) and Precious Lives (1998) and several acclaimed biographies most recently Good Wives (2001) and a fictionalised biography of the artist Gwen John Keeping the world away (2006). 155) (Deroit: Gale 1995) pp.

After a short period as a teacher at Barnsbury Girls' School in Islington north London (1961–1963) Margaret Forster has worked as a novelist biographer and freelance literary critic contributing regularly to book programmes on television to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers and magazines. They live in London and in the Lake District. She was born in Carlisle England where Margaret Forster attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949–1956) and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College Oxford from where Margaret Forster graduated in 1960.