Margaret Stanley-Wrench

Margaret Stanley-Wrench (1916 – 10 January 1974) was an English poet and novelist.^[1]

Life

Stanley-Wrench was the daughter of William Stanley-Wrench (1879-1951) and his wife, Mollie Stanley-Wrench (Violet Louisa Stanley-Wrench, née Gibbs; 1880-1966). Her mother was a novelist, cookery writer and journalist who used the byline "Mrs Stanley Wrench".^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Margaret attended Channing School in Highgate. As an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, she was the winner of the Newdigate Prize in 1937,^[6] becoming only the fifth female winner. Her poems had already appeared in Oxford Poetry and would appear in Time and Tide magazine and in Augury: an Oxford Miscellany (1940).^[7] Her first poetry collection was published in 1938.

At Oxford, Stanley-Wrench met the poet Keith Douglas, who became a friend.^[8] She continued to write poetry, but after the war became better known as a children's writer. Her work was included in New Poems 1965, edited by Clifford Dyment.^[9]

A collection of Stanley-Wrench's papers, including manuscripts and correspondence, is held by the Lockwood Library of the University at Buffalo.^[10]

Publications

Novels

The Rival Riding Schools (1952)
How Much For A Pony? (1955)
The Conscience of a King: The story of Thomas More (1962)
The Silver King: Edward the Confessor, the Last Great Anglo-Saxon Ruler (1966)^[11]
Chaucer, Teller of Tales (1967)

Poetry

News Reel and Other Poems (1938)
A Tale for the Fall of the Year, and other poems (1959)

Drama

The Splendid Burden (1954)
Harlequin's Revenge (1955)

References

^ Richard Burton (20 July 2020). Simplify me: The life of Keith Douglas. Infinite Ideas Limited. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-910902-84-4.
^ "The General Fiction Magazine Index". philsp.com. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
^ Desiderata. F.W. Preece. 1934. p. 6.
^ Wrench, Mrs Stanley (7 January 1933). "Home Life column (editor)". Pearson's Weekly (2215): 800.
^ "A Porterhouse Steak by Mrs. Stanley Wrench". The Royal Magazine. 38: 11–15. 1917.
^ Jane Dowson (21 February 2008). Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-134-79054-8.
^ Alexander Mackenzie Hardie; Keith Castellain Douglas (1940). Augury: An Oxford Miscellany of Verse & Prose. B. Blackwell.
^ John Carey (21 April 2020). A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-300-25252-1.
^ Clifford Dyment (1966). New Poems. Michael Joseph. p. 217.
^ Location Register of Twentieth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors in the British Isles. G.K. Hall. 1988. p. 903. ISBN 978-0-8161-8981-6.
^ The New York Times Book Review. Arno Press. 1966.

[Burton2020-1] Richard Burton (20 July 2020). Simplify me: The life of Keith Douglas. Infinite Ideas Limited. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-910902-84-4.

[2] "The General Fiction Magazine Index". philsp.com. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

[3] Desiderata. F.W. Preece. 1934. p. 6.

[4] Wrench, Mrs Stanley (7 January 1933). "Home Life column (editor)". Pearson's Weekly (2215): 800.

[5] "A Porterhouse Steak by Mrs. Stanley Wrench". The Royal Magazine. 38: 11–15. 1917.

[Dowson2008-6] Jane Dowson (21 February 2008). Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-134-79054-8.

[7] Alexander Mackenzie Hardie; Keith Castellain Douglas (1940). Augury: An Oxford Miscellany of Verse & Prose. B. Blackwell.

[Carey2020-8] John Carey (21 April 2020). A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-300-25252-1.

[Dyment1966-9] Clifford Dyment (1966). New Poems. Michael Joseph. p. 217.

[10] Location Register of Twentieth-century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: A Union List of Papers of Modern English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Authors in the British Isles. G.K. Hall. 1988. p. 903. ISBN 978-0-8161-8981-6.

[11] The New York Times Book Review. Arno Press. 1966.

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