Margaret Stanley-Wrench

Margaret Stanley-Wrench (1916 – 10 January 1974) was an English poet and novelist.[1]

Life

Stanley-Wrench was the daughter of William Stanley-Wrench (1879-1951) and his wife, the novelist and cookery writer Mollie Stanley-Wrench (Violet Louisa Stanley-Wrench, née Gibbs; 1880-1966),[2] who also wrote as "Mrs Stanley Wrench".[3] She attended Channing School in Highgate. As an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, she was the winner of the Newdigate Prize in 1937,[4] becoming only the fifth female winner. Her poems had already appeared in Oxford Poetry and would later appear in Time and Tide and in Augury: an Oxford Miscellany (1940).[5] Her first poetry collection was published in 1938.

At Oxford, Stanley-Wrench met the poet Keith Douglas, who became a friend.[6] She continued to write poetry, but after the war became better known as a children's writer. Her work was included in New Poems 1965, edited by Clifford Dyment.[7]

A collection of Stanley-Wrench's papers, including manuscripts and correspondence, is held by the Lockwood Library of the University at Buffalo.[8]

Publications

Novels
  • The Rival Riding Schools (1952)
  • How Much For A Pony? (1955)
  • The Conscience of a King: The story of Thomas More (1962)
  • The Silver King: Edward the Confessor, the Last Great Anglo-Saxon Ruler (1966)[9]
  • Chaucer, Teller of Tales (1967)

Poetry
  • News Reel and Other Poems (1938)
  • A Tale for the Fall of the Year, and other poems (1959)

Drama
  • The Splendid Burden (1954)
  • Harlequin's Revenge (1955)

References
  1. Richard Burton (20 July 2020). Simplify me: The life of Keith Douglas. Infinite Ideas Limited. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-910902-84-4.
  2. "The General Fiction Magazine Index". philsp.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. Desiderata. F.W. Preece. 1934. p. 6.
  4. Jane Dowson (21 February 2008). Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-134-79054-8.
  5. Alexander Mackenzie Hardie; Keith Castellain Douglas (1940). Augury: An Oxford Miscellany of Verse & Prose. B. Blackwell.
  6. John Carey (21 April 2020). A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-300-25252-1.
  7. Clifford Dyment (1966). New Poems. Michael Joseph. p. 217.
  8. Location Register of Twentieth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors in the British Isles. G.K. Hall. 1988. p. 903. ISBN 978-0-8161-8981-6.
  9. The New York Times Book Review. Arno Press. 1966.
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