Margaret Jowett

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Margaret Mary Jowett (18 April 1921 – 10 December 2014) was a British children's writer who wrote two historical novels about the English theatre. She wrote that her books were intended for those readers "who will one day take their theatrical scholarship neat, but are not yet of an age to do so".[1]

Jowett was born in

Season at Bath, the furore of a Westminster election, the rivalries of leading ladies and the political intrigues connected with the theatre.[1]

A Cry of Players (1961) is set in the world of

Will Shakespeare
, while looking for his father, a player who has mysteriously disappeared.

Jowett was living in Clifton, York in 1978.[2] She later moved to Hove, where she died from cancer and bronchopneumonia on 14 December 2014, at the age of 93.[5]

Works

  • Candidate for Fame, Oxford University Press, 1955. With illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. Republished in the Oxford Children's Library.
  • A Cry of Players, Oxford University Press, 1961. Illustrated by Asgeir Scott.

References

  1. ^ a b Book jacket of A Cry of Players
  2. ^ a b Kirkpatrick, D. L. (10 November 1978). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. p. 667. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Jowett, Margaret M." FreeBMD. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  4. ^ Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori by Michael R. Booth, John Stokes, Susan Bassnett, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p.15, quoting Siddons' memoir
  5. ^ "Jowett, Margaret Mary, b. 1921 GRO Reference: DOR Q4/2014 in Brighton and Hove (452-1A) Entry Number 511277442". GRO Index. Retrieved 12 March 2022.