Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and literary critic. She is best known for her 1965 novel Georgy Girl, which was made into a successful film of the same name and inspired a hit song by The Seekers, as well as her 2003 novel Diary of an Ordinary Woman her biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.

Forster was born in the Raffles council estate in Carlisle, England. She came from a workingclass background. Her father, Arthur Forster, was a mechanic or factory fitter her mother, Lilian , was a housewife who had worked as a clerk or secretary before her marriage. Forster attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls , a grammar school. She won an Open Scholarship to read history at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1960.

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