Margaret Kiddle

Margaret (Loch) Kiddle (10 September 1914 — 3 May 1958) was an Australian writer and historian.

She wrote Moonbeam Stairs (1945),[1] West of Sunset (1949),[2] Caroline Chisholm (1950),[3] The Candle (1950),[4] and Men of Yesterday: A Social History of the Western District of Victoria 1834–1890, which was published posthumously in 1961.

She was the eldest of four children of John Beacham Kiddle and Mauna Loa (née Burnett).

She spent her last moments working on the manuscript of what would, after her death, be published as Men of Yesterday.

Kiddle was mesmerised about the idea of answering questions about the settlers' origins and colonial experiences by having access to their diaries and letters.