Forster, Margaret (1938– )

English novelist and biographer. Her Georgy Girl (1965; filmed 1966) encapsulated the mood of 1960s London; later novels include Have the Men Had Enough? (1989) on the tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and Diary of an Ordinary Woman. The subjects of her biographies, mostly writers, include the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1988).

Forster's first novel, Dame's Delight 1964, set in Oxford, exposed the nostalgic aura surrounding Oxbridge. She has written lives of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1973) and the novelists William Makepeace Thackeray (1978) and Daphne du Maurier (1993).