Marghanita Laski

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Marghanita Laski


Born
in Manchester, Lancashire, England
October 24, 1915

Died
February 06, 1988

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English journalist, radio panelist, and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays, and short stories.

Laski was born to a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals: Neville Laski was her father, Moses Gaster her grandfather, and socialist thinker Harold Laski her uncle. She was educated at Lady Barn House School and St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. After a stint in fashion, she read English at Oxford, then married publisher John Howard, and worked in journalism. She began writing once her son and daughter were born.

A well-known critic as well as a novelist, she wrote books on Jane Austen and George Eliot. Ecstasy (1962) explored intense experiences, and Everyday Ecstasy (1974) their social effects. Her distinctive voice was o
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“To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.”
Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

“Queer,’ said Hilary, and then, 'But at least the Occupation showed each man what he was capable of. Don't you think it was something to be able to find that out?'

'No, why?' said Pierre. 'Some found they were better than they thought, some worse. We are finding that out all the time in our everyday lives.”
Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

“One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.”
Marghanita Laski, Little Boy Lost

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