Cicely Margaret Escott

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Name Cicely Escott Role Novelist		Died August 15, 1977

Cicely Margaret Escott, known as Margaret Escott, (9 July 1908 – 15 August 1977) was a New Zealand novelist, drama teacher and poet. She was born in Eltham, Kent, England, and moved to New Zealand when she was 17. She wrote three novels in the 1930s, the first two under the pen name C. M. Allen. Escott's final work, a volume of poetry, was written in the months prior to her death in 1977, at Waitemata Harbour in New Zealand.

Works

Allen, C. M. (1934). Insolence of office. London: Sampson Low and Company.

Allen, C. M. (1935). Awake at Noon. A Novel. London: Sampson Low and Company.

Escott, Margaret (1936). Show Down. Chatto & Windus.

Published in the U.S. as: Escott, Margaret (1936). I Told My Love. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Escott, Margaret (1980). Separation and/or greeting. Auckland University Press. ISBN 9780196479811.

References

Cicely Margaret Escott Wikipedia

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