Margaret Cole
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G.D.H. Cole (m. 1918; died 1959) |
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Dame Margaret Isabel Cole
Life
A daughter of
Having completed her course (Cambridge did not allow women to graduate formally until 1947), Margaret became a
Pacifist period
During
In the early 1930s, Margaret abandoned her pacifism in reaction to the suppression of socialist movements by governments in Germany and Austria and to events in the Spanish Civil War.
Education work
In 1941, Margaret Cole was co-opted onto the Education Committee of the
In the
Brian Harrison recorded an oral history interview with Cole, in July 1975, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.[5] Cole talks about her family and upbringing, her involvement in the Labour Party, and of her dislike for Christabel Pankhurst's extreme suffragism.
Dame Margaret Cole died on 7 May 1980, the day after her 87th birthday. Her estate was valued at £137,957.[6]
Writings
Cole wrote several books, including a biography of her husband.[7] Her brother Raymond was a labour historian, journalist and novelist.[8] She and her husband jointly authored many mystery novels.[9]
Margaret and her husband created a partnership, but not a full marriage: her husband took little interest in sex and regarded women as a distraction from men. Nevertheless, they had a son and two daughters. Margaret Cole comprehensively documented their life together in a biography she wrote of her husband after his death.[10]
Detective fiction
Novels and Short Story Collections
G. D. H. Cole The Brooklyn Murders (1923). Margaret Cole did not contribute to this novel, which is noted here solely to pre-empt confusion.
G. D. H. and M. Cole
- The Death of a Millionaire (1925)
- The Blatchington Tangle (1926). Serialised, The Daily Herald(1926)
- The Murder at Crome House (1927)
- The Man from the River (1928)
- Superintendent Wilson's Holiday (1928)
- Poison in the Garden Suburb (1929); serialised, The Daily Herald (1929). Also known as Poison in a Garden Suburb
- Burglars in Bucks (1930) aka The Berkshire Mystery
- Corpse in Canonicals (1930) aka The Corpse in the Constable's Garden
- The Great Southern Mystery (1931) aka The Walking Corpse
- Dead Man's Watch (1931)
- Death of a Star (1932)
- A Lesson in Crime (1933)
- A Lesson in Crime; A Question of Coincidence; Mr. Steven's Insurance Policy; Blackmail in the Village; The Cliff Path Ghost; Sixteen Years Run; Wilson Calling (Wilson); The Brentwardine Mystery; The Mother of the Detective; A Dose of Cyanide; Superintendent Wakley's Mistake.
- The Affair at Aliquid (1933)
- End of an Ancient Mariner (1933)
- Death in the Quarry (1934)
- Big Business Murder (1935)
- Dr Tancred Begins (1935)
- Scandal at School (1935) aka The Sleeping Death
- Last Will and Testament (1936)
- The Brothers Sackville (1936)
- Disgrace to the College (1937)
- The Missing Aunt (1937)
- Mrs Warrender's Profession (1938)
- Off with her Head! (1938)
- Double Blackmail (1939)
- Greek Tragedy (1939)
- Wilson and Some Others (1940)
- Death in a Tankard (Wilson); Murder in Church (Wilson); The Bone of the Dinosaur (Wilson); A Tale of Two Suitcases (Wilson); The Motive (Wilson); Glass (Wilson); Murder in Broad Daylight (Wilson); Ye Olde Englysshe Christmasse or Detection in the Eighteenth Century; The Letters; The Partner; A Present from the Empire; The Strange Adventures of a Chocolate Box; Strychnine Tonic.
- Murder at the Munition Works (1940)
- Counterpoint Murder (1940)
- Knife in the Dark (1941)
- Toper's End (1942)
- Death of a Bride (1945)
- Birthday Gifts (1946)
- The Toys of Death (1948)
Radio plays
G. D. H. and M. Cole
- Murder in Broad Daylight. BBC Home Service, 1 June 1934
- The Bone of the Dinosaur. (Detection Club: Series 1, Episode 6). BBC Home Service, 23 and 27 November 1940
Bibliography
- Margaret Cole (1948): Makers of the Labour Movement, London: Longmans.
- Margaret Cole (1949): Growing Up Into Revolution, London: Longmans.
- Margaret Cole (1971): The Life of G. D. H. Cole, London: Macmillan. ISBN 0333002164
- ISBN 0-7163-0482-1
- B. D. Vernon (1986): Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography, London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7099-2611-1
- See under G. D. H. Cole for joint works.
References
- ^ a b c Marc Stears, "Cole , Dame Margaret Isabel (1893–1980)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 May 2017.
- Longmans. p. 258.
- ^ "No. 43529". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1964. p. 12.
- ^ "No. 45117". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1970. p. 6372.
- ^ London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ [1] Probate site. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Husband's biography.
- ^ Mulholland, Marc (2016). "How to Make a Revolution: The Historical and Political Writings of Raymond Postgate Postgate". Socialist History. 49: 107.
- ISBN 9780786490899.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-9992-2.