Material relating to Margaret Forster's book Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir (1995), as follows: Research material. Manuscript drafts. Editorial material. Press reviews.
Papers relating to Margaret Forster's time at school, university, and early employment including exercise books, prayer books, Oxford colleges prospectuses, and letters relating to applications for employment, 1959.
Map of Scotland from a holiday taken by Margaret Forster and Hunter Davies in Sky and Cumberland during the summer of 1957. With itinerary marked in black.
Manuscript draft of Margaret Forster's first published novel Dames' Delight (1964). Leaves are out of sequence, interspersed with revised typescript leaves.
Press reviews (originals and photocopies) of the following works: Mother Can You Hear Me?, 1981. Significant Sisters, 1984-1985. Daphne du Maurier, 1993. Shadow Baby, 1996. Rich Desserts and Captain's Thins, 1997-1998. Hidden Lives, 1995-1996. Precious Lives, 1998. The Memory Box, 1999. Also in...