Margaret Campbell Barnes

Margaret Campbell Barnes (17 February 1891–1 April 1962) was an English writer of historical fiction.

Barnes was born in England in 1891. She was the youngest of ten children. She grew up in the Sussex countryside and was educated in private schools in London and Paris. She started writing early in her life even before she met and married Peter Barnes in 1917. She published numerous short stories over the next 25 years in several magazines. In 1944 at the behest of her agent, Curtis Brown Ltd, she started writing historical novels. By the time of her death she had completed ten books. Many were bestsellers and all told about 2 million copies have been sold.

Barnes and her husband raised two sons, one of whom was killed fighting in France in 1944. The loss affected her deeply and influenced some of her later writing. In 1945 the couple bought a cottage on the Isle of Wight and she lived their until she died in 1962.

• The Passionate Brood, (1945)
• My Lady Of Cleves, (1946)(also titled: The King's Choice)
• Within the Hollow Crown, (1947)
• Brief Gaudy Hour, (1949)
• With All My Heart, (1951)
• Tudor Rose, (1953)
• Mary Of Carisbrooke, (1956)
• Isabel The Fair, (1957)
• King's Fool, (1959)
• The King's Bed, (1962)
• Lady On The Coin, (1963) [with Hebe Elsna]

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