Stella Margetson
Stella Margetson (6 March 1912 – 13 April 1992) was a British novelist and writer on historical subjects and social history, particularly specialising on books about the 19th-century. Biography. Stella Margetson was born in Hampstead in London in 1912, the youngest of three children of Laurence Margetson (1874–1928), a hosiery manufacturer, and the actress, singer and stage beauty Florence Collingbourne (1880-1946). She was descended from the artist and illustrator William Henry Margetson and the novelist and journalist Joseph Hatton. Her plays for BBC Radio Theatre "Leading Lady" (1954) starring Rupert Davies and "Village in the Stars" (1955 ) starring Hubert Gregg were broadcast by the BBC Light Service. For some years she shared a house at 15 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in London with her older sister Colleen Margetson. Apart from her novels and books on historical and social topics Margetson was a prolific author of articles on the latter subjects for such periodicals as "History Today" and "Country Life". Margetson died in London in 1992 aged 80.