Margaret Joan Woodhouse (18 August 1927 – 12 July 1990) was an Australian librarian and bookseller.
Her parents Agnes Gertrude (born Sargent) and Albert Edward Barwell were both English immigrants.
She was educated at Mount St Marys College and Convent and her career was decided when she became an assistant at the State Library of New South Wales.
[2] In 1964 Woodhouse moved her bookselling business into History House in Young Street in Sydney.
[3] The home was arranged by the bibliophile President, Sir John Alexander Ferguson[4] who was one of her customers.