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Margaret Forster

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born

May 25, 1938 in Carlisle, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.visitcumbria.com/mforster.htm

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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Margaret Forster was educated at the Carlisle and County High School for Girls. From here she won an Open Scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford where in 1960 she was awarded an honours degree in History. The day after she finished her final exams, she married the writer Hunter Davies, whom she met and fell in love with at the age of 17.

Since 1963 Margaret Forster has worked as a novelist, biographer and freelance literary critic, contributing regularly to book programmes on television, to Radio 4 and various newpapers and magazines.

She lives half the year in London and half in the Lake District, and has three children, Caitlin, Jake and Flora.

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Books by Margaret Forster

Average rating: 3.65 · 2,088 ratings · 361 reviews · 44 distinct works

	Lady's Maid 3.66 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Diary of an Ordinary Woman 3.97 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Keeping the World Away 3.64 avg rating — 190 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Daphne Du Maurier 3.86 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Memory Box 3.26 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Have the Men Had Enough? 3.91 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Over 3.21 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Private Papers 3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Isa and May 3.27 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Margaret Forster

“I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.”
― Margaret Forster, The Memory Box

tags: control , giving-and-taking

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“She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it.”
― Margaret Forster, Lady's Maid

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