Margaret Storm Jameson was an English writer, known for her 45 novels, and criticism.

She was born in Whitby

Whitby

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, and studied at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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. She moved to London, where she earned an MA from King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

 in 1914 and then went on to teach before becoming a full-time writer. She married the writer Guy Chapman

Guy Chapman (historian)

Guy Patterson Chapman was an historian and British author."He was educated at Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He married Margaret Storm Jameson in 1926. Chapman served in the Royal Fusiliers, 1914-20, particularly in France and Belgium, 1915-18 , and...

, but continued to publish as Storm Jameson.

She was a prominent president of the British branch of the International PEN

International PEN

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 association, from 1939, and active in helping refugee writers. Storm Jameson wrote three volumes of autobiography; a biography by Jennifer Birkett, Professor of French Studies at Birmingham University

University of Birmingham

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, was published by the Oxford University Press

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 in March 2009.

Her most controversial work is Modern Drama in Europe, a critical analysis of the progress made in drama in the first half of the twentienth century. Though most of her commentaries are highly critical and sometimes malitious, her boldness reaches its peak when she asserts that William Butler Yeats "represents the last state in symbolic imbecility" (Modern Drama in Europe: 207).

The rebuilt Charles Morris Halls of the University of Leeds now have a building named after her, Storm Jameson Court.

Works

• The Pot Boils (1919)
• The Happy Highways (1920)
• Modern Drama in Europe (1920)
• The Clash (1922)
• Lady Susan and Life: An Indiscretion (1923)
• The Pitiful Wife (1923)
• Three Kingdoms (1926)
• The Lovely Ship (1927) The Triumph of Time I
• Farewell to Youth (1928)
• The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson (1929)
• The Voyage Home (1930) The Triumph of Time II
• The Decline of Merry England (1930)
• Richer Dust (1931) The Triumph of Time III
• The Single Heart (1932)
• That Was Yesterday (1932)
• Women Against Men (1933)
• No Time Like the Present (1933) autobiography
• A Day Off (1933)
• Company Parade (1934)
• Mirror in Darkness (1934)
• Love in Winter (1935)
• Challenge to Death (1935) editor, essays
• None Turn Back (1936)
• In the Second Year (1936)
• The Moon is Making (1937)
• Delicate Monsters (1937)
• Here Comes a Candle (1938)
• The Novel in Contemporary Life (1938)
• Farewell Night, Welcome Day (1939)
• Civil Journey (1939)
• Cousin Honoré (1940)
• Europe to Let (1940)
• The End of This War (1941)
• The Fort (1942)
• Then We Shall Hear Singing: A Fantasy in C Major (1942)
• London Calling : A Salute to America (1942)
• Cloudless May (1943)
• The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell (1945)
• The Other Side (1946)
• Before the Crossing (1947)
• The Black Laurel (1947)
• The Moment Of Truth (1949)
• The Writer's Situation (1950) essays
• The Hidden River (1952)
• The Green Man (1952)
• The Intruder (1956)
• A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill (1957)
• A Ulysses Too Many (1958)
• Last Score,or the Private Life of Sir Richard Ormston (1961)
• Morley Roberts
  Morley Roberts
  Morley Roberts was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland.-Early life:Roberts was born in London, the son of a superintending inspector of income tax...
  
  : The Last Eminent Victorian (1961)
• The Road from the Monument (1962)
• A Month Soon Goes (1962)
• The Aristide Case (1964)
• The Early Life of Stephen Hind (1966)
• The White Crow (1968)
• Journey from the North (1969) two volumes, autobiography
• Parthian Words (1970)
• There Will Be A Short Interval (1973)
• Speaking of Stendhal (1979)

Secondary literature

• LASSNER, Phyllis, '"On the Point of a Journey" : Storm Jameson, Phyllis Bottome, and the Novel of Women's Political Psychology' in Shuttleworth, Antony (ed.), And in our time : vision, revision, and British writing of the 1930s (Lewisburg (PA) and London: Bucknell University Press, 2003), 115-32. ISBN: 0838755186