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Margaret Maddocks

マーガレット・マドックス

Māgaretto Maddokkusu

Aliases: Margaret Kathleen Cooper

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1906-08-10 （Caversham, Oxfordshire）
Died
1993-10-20 （Chichester, West Sussex） age 87
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Caversham, Oxfordshire

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1944-1977

Education

St. Helen's School
Northwood, London
Country: UK
Middlesex
Dresden
Staffordshire
Country: UK

Awards

Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1962
Work: Larksbrook
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: Winner
Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1965
Work: The Silver Answer
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: Winner
Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1970
Work: Thea
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: Winner
Romantic Novel of the Year Award
1976
Work: The Moon is Square
Organization: Romantic Novelists' Association
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Larksbrook

1962 Gothic

Gothic romance novel

RomanceMystery

The Silver Answer

1965 Gothic

Gothic romance novel

RomanceMystery

Thea

1970 Gothic

Gothic romance novel

RomanceMystery

The Moon is Square

1976 Gothic

Gothic romance novel

RomanceMystery

An Unlessoned Girl

1977 Autobiography

Autobiography

Writer's life

Bibliography

  • Come Lasses and Lads
  • The Quiet House
  • Remembered Spring
  • Fair Shines the Day
  • Piper'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
  • An Unlessoned Girl

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Well-writtenBelievable charactersEngaging plot
Recurring Motifs
Gothic elementsRomance

Legacy

The only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Awards from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Quotes

  • Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope my books may be considered as well-written. They appear to be popular among all age groups in the nine countries where they have been published. This is probably because the reader can believe in the characters and the plot holds the interest to the end. They tend to cheer rather than depress.
    Source: Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers (1982)