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.

Stella Margetson was born in Hampstead in London in 1912,[1] the youngest of three children of Laurence Margetson (1874–1928), a hosiery manufacturer,[2] and the actress, singer and stage beauty Florence Collingbourne (1880-1946).

[3][4] She was descended from the artist and illustrator William Henry Margetson and the novelist and journalist Joseph Hatton.

[7] For some years she shared a house at 15 Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood in London with her older sister Colleen Margetson.

[5] 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.