Margaret Irwin (novelist)

Irwin was born in Highgate Hill, London to Andrew Clarke Irwin (a native of Perth, Western Australia, d. 1902) and Anna Julia Irwin (née Baker, d. 1899), the daughter of Col. George Baker of the 16th (Queens) Lancers. She was brought up by her uncle S. T. Irwin (Sidney Thomas Irwin), a master of Classics at Clifton College, then a boys' school. Irwin attended the nearby Clifton High School, a girls' school, in Bristol, after her parents died. She was educated at Clifton and at Oxford University, where she took a degree in English. ==Career==

She began writing books and short stories in her early twenties. In 1929 she married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell, who created the covers for some of her books. Irwin also wrote two fantasy novels: Still She Wished for Company is about a magical time slip, and These Mortals is an adult fairy tale about a wizard's daughter. ==Bibliography==

• Young Bess (1953), an adaptation of the book of the same title and Elizabeth, Captive Princess • "The Doughty Plot" (1962) An episode of the television series Sir Francis Drake adapted from her own story and screenplay, co-written by Margaret Irwin. ==References==