Stella Margetson

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.

Stella Margetson in 1948

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.[5]

Her plays for BBC Radio Theatre Leading Lady (1954) starring Rupert Davies[6] and Village in the Stars (1955) starring Hubert Gregg were broadcast by the BBC Light Service.[7] For some years she shared a house at 15 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in London with her older sister Colleen Margetson.[5] 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]

References
  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 for Stella Margetson: 1912, Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 for Florence Collingbourne: 1902, Q2-Apr-May-Jun - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  3. Ada Reeve (1876-1966) - Stage Beauty website
  4. 1911 England Census for Florence Margetson: London, Hampstead - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  5. The Hattons and the Margetsons - St John's Wood Memories
  6. Listings for BBC Radio - Leading Lady -The Radio Times
  7. Listings for BBC Radio - Village in the Stars - The Radio Times
  8. Publications of Stella Margetson - British Library Catalogue
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