Margaret Maddocks


Margaret Kathleen Maddocks was a British writer of 17 gothic and romance novels. Before retiring she wrote her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl in 1977. She is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Biography

Personal life

Born in Caversham, Oxfordshire, Maddocks was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, London, Middlesex, and in Dresden, Staffordshire. In 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died in 1970. She died in October 1993.

Career

Published since 1947 under her married name, Margaret Maddocks, she is the only novelist who has won four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Larksbrook, The Silver Answer, Thea, and The Moon is Square.
In 1977, before retiring she published her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl.

Novels

Come Lasses and Lads The Quiet House Remembered Spring Fair Shines the Day aka The Open DoorPiper's Tune A Summer Gone The Frozen Fountain Larksbrook The Green Grass November Tree The Silver Answer Dance Barefoot Fool's Enchantment Thea The Weathercock A View of the Sea
  • ''The Moon is Square''

Autobiography

  • ''An Unlessoned Girl''