Stella Margetson Explained
Stella Margetson (6 March 1912 - 13 April 1992) was a British novelist and writer on historical subjects and social history, particularly specialising on books about the 19th century.
Biography
Stella Margetson was born in Hampstead in London in 1912,[1] the youngest of three children of Laurence Margetson (1874–1928), a hosiery manufacturer,[2] and the actress, singer and stage beauty Florence Collingbourne (1880-1946).[3] [4] She was descended from the artist and illustrator William Henry Margetson and the novelist and journalist Joseph Hatton.
Her plays for BBC Radio Theatre Leading Lady (1954) starring Rupert Davies[5] and Village in the Stars (1955) starring Hubert Gregg were broadcast by the BBC Light Service.[6] For some years she shared a house at 15 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in London with her older sister Colleen Margetson.[7] Apart from her novels and books on historical and social topics Margetson was a prolific author of articles on the latter subjects for such periodicals as History Today and Country Life.
Margetson died in London in 1992 aged 80.
Selected publications
- Victorian High Society, London : Batsford, 1980.
- Victorian People, London : Batsford, 1977.
- The Long Party: High Society in the Twenties and Thirties, London 34 Seymour Rd, N8 0BE : Gordon [and] Cremonesi Ltd, 1976.
- Journey by Stages: Some Account of the People Who Travelled by Stage-coach and Mail in the Years between 1660 and 1840, Cassell, 1967.
- The Prisoners. A novel, London : William Heinemann, 1949.
- Leisure and Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, London : Cassell, 1970.
- Fifty Years of Victorian London, from the Great Exhibition to the Queen's Death, London : Macdonald & Co., 1969.
- Peter's Wife. A novel, London : William Heinemann, 1948.
- Flood Tide and Other Stories, Bognor Regis : John Crowther, 1943.
- Regency London, London : Cassell, 1971.
- Three Dramatic Monologues: The Whole Truth. Dear Stephen. My Roger, London : Samuel French, 1953
- Miss Swinford Remembers, London ; Bognor Regis : John Crowther, 1941
- Leisure and Pleasure in the Nineteenth Century, London : Cassell, 1969.
- St John's Wood, Published for the St. John's Wood Society by Home and Law, c1988.[8]
Notes and References
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8912/ONS_B19121AZ-0884?pid=20556292&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D8912%26h%3D20556292%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjv3320%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv3320&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.96605663.1335830168.1588585387-1197399642.1515349816 England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 for Stella Margetson: 1912, Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar - Ancestry.com
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8913/ONS_M19024AZ-0368?pid=5948776&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D8913%26h%3D5948776%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjv3315%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djv3315&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.95566940.1335830168.1588585387-1197399642.1515349816 England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for Florence Collingbourne: 1902, Q2-Apr-May-Jun - Ancestry.com
- http://www.stagebeauty.net/th-frames.html?http&&&www.stagebeauty.net/reeve/reeve-a2.html Ada Reeve (1876-1966) - Stage Beauty website
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2352/rg14_00600_0483_03/1637385 1911 England Census for Florence Margetson: London, Hampstead - Ancestry.com
- https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbchomeservice/basic/1954-03-18 Listings for BBC Radio - Leading Lady
- https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1955-03-13 Listings for BBC Radio - Village in the Stars
- https://www.stjohnswoodmemories.org.uk/content/arts/art-artists/the_hattons_and_the_margetsons The Hattons and the Margetsons - St John's Wood Memories
- http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=Next+Page&pag=nxt&indx=1&pageNumberComingFrom=1&frbg=&&fn=search&indx=1&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A(BLCONTENT)&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&tb=t&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&ct=search&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=stella%20margetson&dstmp=1588629817183 Publications of Stella Margetson
