Still She Wished for Company by Margaret Irwin

Irwin also wrote two fantasy novels: Still She Wished For Company is about a magical timeslip, while These Mortals is an adult fairy-tale about a wizard's daughter. Irwin wrote several ghost stories (including 'The Book' and 'The Earlier Service'). This was originally published in 1924 and is set in 1s70s and between that time era. We see two main protagonists Jan and Juliana, both of which live a very content and dull life. One of her novels, Young Bess about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I, was made into a film starring Jean Simmons. Still She Wished For Company by Margaret Irwin is a historical fiction ghost story with time travel and fantasy elements to the story. Still She Wished For Company by Margaret Irwin is a historical fiction ghost story with time travel and fantasy elements to the story. Jan Challard is a young woman living in 1920s London and. Part ghost story, part time-slip fantasy and part historical fiction, Margaret Irwin’s first novel from 1924, recently reissued with a pretty new cover, is a wonderful, dreamlike read. Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of their historical research, and she became a noted authority on the Elizabethan and early Stuart era. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2020. In 1929 she married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell, who created the covers for some of her books. She began writing books and short stories in the early 1920s.

She was educated at Clifton and at Oxford University. Irwin, a schoolmaster at Clifton High School in Bristol, after her parents died.

Irwin was born in Highgate Hill, London, to Andrew Clarke Irwin (a native of Perth, Western Australia) and Anna Julia Irwin.

Still She Wished for Company by Margaret Irwin