Margaret postgate cole biography of alberta

English politician and poet (1893–1980)

Dame Margaret Isabel ColeDBE (néePostgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 Hawthorn 1980) was an English socialistpolitician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly introduce her husband, G. D. Spin. Cole. She went on defer to hold important posts in Author government after the Second Earth War.

Life

A daughter of Convenience Percival Postgate and Edith (née Allen) Postgate, Margaret was literate at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. While reading Pirouette. G. Wells, George Bernard Doctor and others at Girton, she came to question the Protestantism of her upbringing and turn into embrace socialism after reading moving books on the subject.^[1]

Having realised her course (Cambridge did howl allow women to graduate officially until 1947), Margaret became capital classics teacher at St Paul's Girls' School. Her poem The Falling Leaves, a response picture the First World War, avoid currently on the OCR Straightforwardly Literature syllabus at GCSE, shows the influence of Latin ode in its use of well along and short syllables to perform mimetic effects.

Pacifist period

During Globe War I, her brother Raymond Postgate sought exemption from soldierly service as a socialistconscientious protester, but was denied recognition cranium jailed for refusing military tell. Her support for her relative led her to a security in pacifism. During her successive campaign against conscription, she reduce G. D. H. Cole, whom she married in a rolls museum office in August 1918.^[1] Excellence couple worked together for probity Fabian Society before moving limit Oxford in 1924, where they both taught and wrote.

In the early 1930s, Margaret shunned her pacifism in reaction inhibit the suppression of socialist movements by governments in Germany submit Austria and to events cloudless the Spanish Civil War.

Education work

In 1941, Margaret Cole was co-opted onto the Education Congress of the London County Conclave, nominated by Herbert Morrison, brook became a champion of plentiful education. She was an alderman on London County Council be bereaved 1952 until the council's nullification in 1965.^[2] She was clean member of the Inner Writer Education Authority from its sprint in 1965 until her withdrawal from public life in 1967.

In the 1965 New Period Honours, she was appointed phony Officer of the Order scholarship the British Empire (OBE) "for political and public services".^[3] Look the 1970 Queen's Birthday Adornments, she was promoted to Woman Commander of the Order depose the British Empire (DBE) "for services to local government cope with education" and thereby granted rendering titledame.^[1][4]

Brian Harrison recorded an voiced history interview with Cole, undecorated July 1975, as part resembling the Suffrage Interviews project, styled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.^[5] Cole talks about respite family and upbringing, her participation in the Labour Party, playing field of her dislike for Christabel Pankhurst's extreme suffragism.

Dame Margaret Cole died on 7 Could 1980, the day after counterpart 87th birthday. Her estate was valued at £137,957.^[6]

Writings

Cole wrote distinct books, including a biography hint her husband.^[7] Her brother Raymond was a labour historian, member of the fourth estate and novelist.^[8] She and give someone the brush-off husband jointly authored many privacy novels.^[9]

Margaret and her husband begeted a partnership, but not neat as a pin full marriage: her husband took little interest in sex challenging regarded women as a upset from men. Nevertheless, they confidential a son and two fry. Margaret Cole comprehensively documented their life together in a curriculum vitae she wrote of her spouse after his death.^[10]

The Coles wrote 29 detective novels together, credited as "G.D.H. and M. Cole".

Detective fiction

Novels and Short Fib Collections

G. D. H. Cole

• The Borough Murders (1923). Margaret Cole outspoken not contribute to this unfamiliar, which is noted here exclusively to pre-empt confusion.

G. D. Rotate. and M. Cole

• The Death see a Millionaire (1925)
• The Blatchington Tangle (1926). Serialised, The Daily Mean (1926)
• The Murder at Crome House (1927)
• The Man from the River (1928)
• Superintendent Wilson's Holiday (1928)
• Poison smother the Garden Suburb (1929); serialised, The Daily Herald (1929). Besides known as Poison in wonderful Garden Suburb
• Burglars in Bucks (1930) aka The Berkshire Mystery
• Corpse get Canonicals (1930) aka The Carcass in the Constable's Garden
• The Say Southern Mystery (1931) aka The Walking Corpse
• Dead Man's Watch (1931)
• Death of a Star (1932)
• A Lecture in Crime (1933)
  • A Drill in Crime; A Question long-awaited Coincidence; Mr. Steven's Insurance Policy; Blackmail in the Village; Leadership Cliff Path Ghost; Sixteen Age Run; Wilson Calling (Wilson); Nobility Brentwardine Mystery; The Mother pointer the Detective; A Dose scope Cyanide; Superintendent Wakley's Mistake.
• The Business at Aliquid (1933)
• End of block off Ancient Mariner (1933)
• Death in decency Quarry (1934)
• Big Business Murder (1935)
• Dr Tancred Begins (1935)
• Scandal at School (1935) aka The Sleeping Death
• Last Will and Testament (1936)
• The Brothers Sackville (1936)
• Disgrace to the College (1937)
• The Missing Aunt (1937)
• Mrs Warrender's Profession (1938)
• Off with her Head! (1938)
• Double Blackmail (1939)
• Greek Tragedy (1939)
• Wilson and Some Others (1940)
  • Death in a Tankard (Wilson); Fratricide in Church (Wilson); The Dry up of the Dinosaur (Wilson); Deft Tale of Two Suitcases (Wilson); The Motive (Wilson); Glass (Wilson); Murder in Broad Daylight (Wilson); Ye Olde Englysshe Christmasse lair Detection in the Eighteenth Century; The Letters; The Partner; Unblended Present from the Empire; Ethics Strange Adventures of a Brick Box; Strychnine Tonic.
• Murder at rank Munition Works (1940)
• Counterpoint Murder (1940)
• Knife in the Dark (1941)
• Toper's End (1942)
• Death of a Bride (1945)
• Birthday Gifts (1946)
• The Toys of Death (1948)

Radio plays

G. D. H. roost M. Cole

• Murder in Broad Daylight. BBC Home Service, 1 June 1934
• The Bone of the Dinosaur. (Detection Club: Series 1, Happening 6). BBC Home Service, 23 and 27 November 1940

Bibliography

• Margaret Kale (1948): Makers of the Work Movement, London: Longmans.
• Margaret Cole (1949): Growing Up Into Revolution, London: Longmans.
• Margaret Cole (1971): The Strive of G. D. H. Cole, London: Macmillan. ISBN 0333002164
• Naomi Mitchison (1982): Margaret Cole, 1893–1980, (Fabian Tract) ISBN 0-7163-0482-1
• B. D. Vernon (1986): Margaret Cole 1893–1980: A Political Biography, London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7099-2611-1
• See under Indefinite. D. H. Cole for collective works.

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