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Margaret Cole
1893–1980
A sharp-minded English socialist, poet, and novelist, she brought politics and storytelling together in a life that ranged from Cambridge intellectual circles to public service in postwar London. She is especially remembered for detective fiction written with her husband, G. D. H. Cole, and for a career shaped by reformist ideals.
2 Audiobooks
The man from the river : A Wilson Story
by G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole, Margaret Cole
The death of a millionaire
by G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole, Margaret Cole
About the author
Born Margaret Isabel Postgate in Cambridge on May 6, 1893, she studied at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. She became part of a notably literary and political family, and her early interest in socialism helped shape both her public work and her writing.
Cole wrote poetry, political work, and fiction, and she is often associated with the detective novels she wrote jointly with G. D. H. Cole, whom she married in 1918. Alongside her literary career, she was active in socialist politics and later held important posts in London government after the Second World War.
She was appointed DBE and is remembered as a writer whose books grew out of a deeply engaged political life. She died on May 7, 1980.