Margaret Stanley-Wrench (1916 – 10 January 1974) was an English poet and novelist.[1]
Life edit
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 edit
Novels edit
- 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 edit
- News Reel and Other Poems (1938)
- A Tale for the Fall of the Year, and other poems (1959)
Drama edit
- The Splendid Burden (1954)
- Harlequin's Revenge (1955)
References edit
- ^ Richard Burton (20 July 2020). Simplify me: The life of Keith Douglas. Infinite Ideas Limited. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-910902-84-4.
- ^ "The General Fiction Magazine Index". philsp.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Desiderata. F.W. Preece. 1934. p. 6.
- ^ Jane Dowson (21 February 2008). Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-134-79054-8.
- ^ Alexander Mackenzie Hardie; Keith Castellain Douglas (1940). Augury: An Oxford Miscellany of Verse & Prose. B. Blackwell.
- ^ John Carey (21 April 2020). A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-300-25252-1.
- ^ Clifford Dyment (1966). New Poems. Michael Joseph. p. 217.
- ^ 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.
- ^ The New York Times Book Review. Arno Press. 1966.