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Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard M.B.E. (9 December 1892 - 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa Margitson.[1]
She was educated at Saint Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk and was awarded an MBE for her work as an auxiliary nurse during World War I.[1] She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected President of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild.[1]
She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left. Her book Norfolk Life contained an introduction by Henry Williamson.
She is buried at Ditchingham, Norfolk.[2]
Books
editNorfolk Life
A Norfolk Notebook
A Country Scrapbook
The Cloak That I Left
Too Late for Tears
The Rabbit Skin Cap, editor
I Walked by Night, editor
References
edit- ^ a b c Dawson Haggard D.,The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899 (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at http://haggard.surnames.com/historical_files/H1.htm on October 3, 2010
- ^ Literary Norfolk (2007) - retrieved online at http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/ditchingham.htm on October 3, 2010
Category: 1892 births
Category: 1968 deaths
Category: English writers
Category: English women writers