Dorothy Margaret Stuart
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Dorothy Margaret Stuart, née Browne (1889, Meerbrook, Staffordshire – September 14, 1963) was a British poet and writer.[1]
In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Fencers' song" cycle, Sword Songs.[2]
Her other works include literary and historical biographies, historical non-fiction particularly concentrating on the lives of women and children, and history stories for children. She was a member of the English Association from 1930 onwards, edited its News-Letter and contributed essays and book reviews to its journal, English.[3]
Selected bibliography
- Lyrics of Old London (1915)
- Sword Songs (1925)
- The Boy Through the Ages (1926)
- The Book of Other Lands (1927)
- Horace Walpole (1927)
- The Girl Through the Ages (1933)
- Chivalry and Social Life in the Middle Ages (1927)
- Christina Rossetti (1930)
- Men and Women of Plantagenet England (1932)
- The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933)
- Sir Walter Scott: Some Centenary Reflections (1934)
- The King's Service (1935)
- Molly Lepell: Lady Hervey (1936)
- King George the Sixth (1937)
- The Daughters of George III (1939)
- A Child's Day Through the Ages (1941)
- The Children's Chronicle (1944)
- Historic Cavalcade (1945)
- The English Abigail (1946)
- The Young Clavengers (1947)
- The Five Wishes (1950)
- Daughter of England: A New Study of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Her Family (1951)
- The Story of William the Conqueror (1952)
- Portrait of the Prince Regent (1953)
- Dearest Bess (1955)
- London Through the Ages (1956)
- A Book of Cats: Legendary, Literary and Historical (1959)
Notes
- ↑ Pine, L. G., ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960, p.372
- ↑ Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxxi.
- ↑ Obituary in English, Volume 14, Issue 84, Autumn 1963
External links
- Olympic Profile
- Works by or about Dorothy Margaret Stuart in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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