Material relating to an unfinished novel by Margaret Forster, as follows: Photocopy of manuscript draft, untitled, 58 pages. Press cuttings relating to detention centres and refugees, 2015. Printout of email from Hunter Davies to his children about the manuscript and the fact that a copy of it h...
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...
Press reviews (originals and photocopies) of the following works: Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 2003. Is There Anything You Want?, 2005. Keeping the World Away, 2006. Over, 2007. Isa and May, 2010. The Unknown Bridesmaid, 2013. My Life in Houses, 2014.
Additional press reviews (originals and photocopies) of the following works: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography and Selected Poems, 1988-1989. Have Men Had Enough?, 1989. Lady's Maid, UK edition, 1990, and U.S. edition, 1991. Interview with Margaret Forster about Daphne du Maurier's influe...
Photograph of Margaret Forster's writing room in her house. Copyright Eammon McCabe (used in article in The Guardian part of the series 'Writer's Room', 18 Apr 2008).
Photocopies of two interviews with Margaret Forster, as follows: Something Rotten in Somerville [College Magazine], 2001. WI Life, the Women Institute magazine, [2006].
Biographical pieces, as follows: Proofs of the entry on Margaret Forster by Merritt Moseley for Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2002.Proofs of the entry on Margaret Forster for Who's Who 2005, 2004. Obituary from Carlisle Library, [2016].
Margaret Forster: Booker Prize and Trask Award Notes
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Two notebooks containing Margaret Forster's manuscript notes about books entered for the Booker Prize 1980 and the Trask Award 1984, when she was a judge.
Papers relating to Margaret Forster degree in Modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, 1956-1958. Manuscript of a poem [by Margaret Forster] entitled 'All Compass the Eye Reckons'. Typescripts of articles [by Margaret Forster] entitled 'Three White Heads', 'The New Flats', 'The Growing Art o...