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MACCARTHY, JOHN BERNARD
Playwright, Poet, Novelist & Short Story Writer
MACDIARMID, HUGH
Poet. Nationalist & Marxist. Leader of the Scottish literary
renaissance. Married Margaret Skinner in 1918 (divorced 1932) &
Valda Trevlyn in 1934
MACDONALD, GEORGE
Poet & Novelist. First Editor of the magazine Good Words for the
Young. Awarded a Civil List pension in 1877 by Queen Victoria
MACDONALD, JOHN DANN
Novelist. Wrote 65 novels, selling over 70 million copies. Also had 500 stories published in magazines.
MACHEN, ARTHUR
Novelist & Writer. Married Amelia Hogg in 1887 (she died of cancer
in 1899) & Dorothy Hudlestone in 1903. In London he worked as a
publisher's clerk and tutor, catalogued occult books and did
translations. From 1929 he lived in Amersham, Bucks, dying in a nursing
home in Beaconsfield. He rarely made any money from his writing but has
been very influential on horror fiction in the UK and America
MACKENZIE, SIR COMPTON
Novelist, Biographer, Essayist & critic. Captain in Royal Marines in
WW1 and became Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. Married
Faith Stone in 1905, Christina MacSween in 1962 & her sister Lilian
MacSween in 1965. For many years lived on the Isle of Barra, where he
is buried.
MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD
Poet and dramatist. Married Ada Hitchcock in 1916. Lived in Europe 1923-8. Editor of Fortune Magazine in New York 1929-38
MACNEICE, FREDERICK LOUIS
Poet, Critic, playwright & translator & BBC Producer. Married
Mary Ezra in 1930 (divorced 1937) & Hedli Anderson in 1942.
Journalist in Spanish Civil War.
MAIS, STUART PETER BRODIE
Travel Writer & Critic
MAN, ISLE OF
MANN, THOMAS
Novelist. Left Germany 1933 for Switzerland, then moved to USA (became a
US citizien in 1944) with his brother Heinrich. Nobel Prize 1929.
Although probably homosexual in 1905 he married Katja Pringsheim. Two of
his sisters and one of his sons committed suicide
MANNIN, ETHEL EDITH
Novelist, Essayist, Pacifist & Travel Writer. Lived in Connemara. Married J A Porteous 1920, and Reginald Reynolds in 1938
MARCHANT, BESSIE (ELIZABETH)
Writer of girls stories, especially about places abroad, although
Marchant never left Britain ! Married Jabez Comfort, a clergyman, in
1889
MARRYAT, FREDERICK ('CAPT')
Novelist, Draughtsman and Caricaturist. Died of Haemoptysis
MARSH, RICHARD BERNARD HELDEMANN
Novelist of mysteries, thrillers, humour, horror and fantasy. Died of heart failure
MARTINEAU, HARRIET
Writer, Journalist (may have been the first female journalist) &
Novelist. Involved in Unitarian Movement. Remained single. Deaf, plus no
sense of smell or taste. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review and wrote
over 1600 articles for the Daily News (1851-1866). From 1845 until her
death she lived in Ambleside
MASEFIELD, JOHN (EDWARD)
Poet and novelist. Went to America aged 17 and worked at various jobs
until 1897 when he returned to England. Married Constance de la Cherois
Crommelin, a schoolteacher, in 1903. From 1909-10 he had a passionate
affair with Elizabeth Robins and supported women's suffrage. Poet
Laureate 1930-1967
MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET
Novelist and short story writer. Homosexual. Married Syrie Wellcome in
1917 but the couple lived apart & divorced in 1928. His companion
for most of his life was his secretary, Gerald Haxton (1892-1944) who
had been prosecuted, but acquitted of an act of gross indecency in a
London hotel. They lived on the French Riviera from 1928. After Haxton's
death he lived with Alan Searle (1904-85)
MAXWELL, DONALD
Writer and illustrator
MAYNE, WILLIAM
Children's writer. Single living in the Yorkshire Dales. Composes music. Imprisoned for 2 years in 2004 for paedophilia
MEADE, L T
Novelist for girls. Wrote over 300 books. Lived in England from 1874.
Married Alfred Toulmin Smith, a solicitor, in 1879 and they settled in
London. Edited the magazine Atlanta for 6 years. Collaborated with
Robert Eustace (a pseudonym for Dr Eustace Robert Barton) in five
science fiction books (1898-1902) and with Clifford Halifax (a pesudonym
for Dr Edgar Beaumont) on six crime novels
MEE, ARTHUR
Prolific Writer and Editor. Married Amy Fratson in 1897.
MELVILLE, HERMAN
Novelist & poet. In 1839 he shipped as a cabin boy to Liverpool and
later sailed for the South Seas on the whaler "Acushnet" (1841). Jumping
ship he had many experiences in the islands of the Pacific and returned
to New York to write about them. Married Elizabeth Shaw in 1847
MEREDITH, GEORGE
Novelist, Journalist & poet. Married Mary Nicolls, a widow in 1849.
She deserted him in 1858 and in 1864 he married Marie Vulliamy
MILLAR, HAROLD R
Painter & Illustrator who worked for Strand magazine, for which he
illustrated stories by E Nesbit. His work appeared in Little Folks (1890
Cassell)
MILLER, HENRY VALENTINE
Writer. Lived in Europe 1930-1940
MILLER, ARTHUR
Jewish Playwright, Novelist & Short Story Writer. Married Mary
Slattery in 1940 & Marilyn Monroe in 1956 (divorced 1961). He was
brought before the House Committee on Un-American Acitivities in the
1950s but refused to name names. In 1962 he married Ingeborg Morath
MILLIGAN, SPIKE (TERENCE ALAN)
Comedy writer, Poet and Autobiographer
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER (AA)
Humorist, Novelist and Poet. Married Daphne de Selincourt in 1913. Their
son, Christopher Robin, became the character in Milne's books
MILTON, JOHN
Poet & Pamphleteer. Married three times - in 1643 to Mary Powell
(d1652), in 1656 to Catherine Woodcock (d1657) and 1662 to Elizabeth
Minshull (she was 25 he was 55). Went blind in 1652.
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MITCHELL, GLADYS MAUDE WINIFRED
Crime Novelist. Creator of Dame Beatrice Bradley, psychiatric adviser to the Home Office
MITCHISON, NAOMI (MARY MARGARET)
Novelist & Writer. Daughter of Prof J S Haldane. A Fabian campaigner. Married Gilbert Mitchison (a Labour MP in 1945) 1916
MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist & Poet. In 1797 she won a lottery
prize of £20,000 that made her family financially secure for many years.
From 1820 she lived the rest of her life in the Berkshire village of
Three Mile Cross
MOLESWORTH, MRS MARY LOUISE STEWART
Children's novelist. Calvinist. Married Major Richard Molesworth in
1861, later divorced. She went to live in France. Published 100 books
MOORCOCK, MICHAEL (JOHN)
Science fiction Novelist
MOORE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS
Novelist & prose Writer. Wealthy upbringing, inheriting his father's
12,000 acre estate in Co Mayo. Became a Protestant and preferred to
live in Sussex
MOORE, THOMAS
Romantic Poet, and Biographer. National songwriter of Ireland. Married Bessie Dyke, an actress, in 1811
MORISON, STANLEY
Writer on Typography and Printing. Book designer. On the staff of The
Times, typographical adviser to CUP and the Monotype Corporation.
Designed the Times Roman Font & Gollancz jackets in 1930's
MORRIS, WILLIAM
Poet and Craftsman. 1859 married Jane Burden. Established the Kelmscott
(named after his house, Kelmscott Manor, near Lechlade) Press in 1890.
Helped form the Socialist League in 1884
MORTIMER, SIR JOHN (CLIFFORD)
Barrister turned playwright, scriptwriter and novelist
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