author
Margaret Westrup
An Edwardian novelist who wrote both adult fiction and stories for younger readers, with books that often turn on family life, change, and lively domestic adventures. Her work still surfaces today through reprints and Project Gutenberg editions, giving modern readers an easy way into a once-popular early 20th-century voice.
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The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London
by Margaret Westrup
About the author
Margaret Westrup was a British writer active in the Edwardian and early 20th-century period. Oxford Reference notes that she wrote eight volumes of fiction, including books for children, and that after her 1910 marriage to the painter W. Sydney Stacey she lived in Cornwall.
Her surviving bibliography shows a mix of family-centered fiction and children's literature. Titles linked to her in library and bookseller records include The Young O'Briens, Elizabeth's Children, Helen Alliston, Elizabeth in Retreat, The Greater Mischief, Tide Marks, and The Moulding Loft.
Although biographical details are scarce, her books have remained accessible through reprints and digitization. The Young O'Briens is available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep her work in circulation for readers interested in forgotten popular fiction of the early 1900s.