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Margaret Lane


Born
in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, The United Kingdom
June 23, 1907

Died
February 14, 1994

Genre
Children's, Biography, Fiction


Margaret Winifred Lane (June 23, 1907 – February 14, 1994) was a British journalist, biographer and novelist, the author of more than two dozen books. She was the second wife of Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon.
She was the mother of writer Selina Hastings.

Lane was highly educated, attending St. Stephen's College and St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

After university, she worked as a reporter for the Daily Express from 1928 - 1931, and then as a special correspondent for the International News Service from 1931 - 1932. While there, she interviewed the gangster Al Capone.
From 1932 - 1938, she was a journalist for the Daily Mail, where she was the UK's highest paid woman journalist at the time.

Lane wrote two biographies of Beatrix Potter, ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,161 ratings · 151 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors
The Tale of Beatrix Potter:...
3.91 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 1946 — 54 editions
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The Magic Years of Beatrix ...
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The Brontë Story: A Reconsi...
4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1953 — 21 editions
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A Calabash of diamonds: An ...
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The Squirrel
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The Fox
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A Smell of Burning
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Frances Wright and the "Gre...
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