“margaret forster”

The question mark in the title of Margaret Forster's triple biography and memoir, Good Wives?, betrays something of her ambivalence on the subject of matrimony. To deconstruct what a "good" wife might be, she explores the lives of a "wife-of" trio who were all married to prominent men (as is Forster... More

A masterpiece of biography and storytelling where subject and author are perfectly matched. Rebecca was published in 1938 and brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery. But the more fame this and her other... More

"'Sometimes I have the feeling I'm going to turn out to be something queer when I grow up. Mathilda is so ordinary, she makes me feel special. I am not like her. I want to be different, I don't know how. Mathilda hates to be different. I am different already.' Millicent King, 26 November 1914" "'The... More

To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. Three of her four daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected it; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with disastrous results. Penelope begins to record ... More

A classic Margaret Forster novel with the same satisfying appeal as her bestselling Diary of an Ordinary Woman -- the story of an actual early 20th century painting and its fictional adventures through the century and of the women whose lives it touches. "From the Hardcover edition."... More

In Forster's historically authentic novel, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Barrett's maid and confidante, describes her daily experiences, her impressions of the large household and, especially, her sickly but charismatic mistress's relationship with Mr. Browning." Fascinating . . . The reader is treate... More

Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident, and the battle for Christabel has begun.When a single mother of a young child is tragically killed in a climbing accident, the batt... More