Pen name Margaret Maddocks Period 1944–1977 Died October 1993 Nationality British Role Writer | Language English Name Margaret Maddocks Occupation Novelist Genre Gothic, romance | |
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Born Margaret Kathleen Avern
10 August 1906
Caversham, Oxfordshire (now Berkshire), England, UK ( 1906-08-10 ) Books An Unlessoned Girl, A View of the Sea, Thea | ||
Margaret Maddocks, née Margaret Kathleen Avern (10 August 1906 – October 1993), was a British writer of 17 gothic and romance novels. Before retiring she wrote her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl in 1977. She is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Personal life
Born Margaret Kathleen Avern on 10 August 1906 in Caversham, Oxfordshire (now Berkshire), England, UK. She was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, London, Middlesex, and in Dresden, Staffordshire. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died in 1970. She died in October 1993.
Career
Published since 1947 under her married name, Margaret Maddocks, she is the only novelist, who won four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Larksbrook (1962), The Silver Answer (1965), Thea (1970), and The Moon is Square (1976).
In 1977, before retiring she published her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl.