\"The Brontë Story\" Margaret Lane Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980 COA for Sale

\"The Brontë Story\" Margaret Lane Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980 COA For Sale

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\"The Brontë Story\" Margaret Lane Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980 COA:
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Up for sale\"The Brontë Story\" Margaret Lane Hand Signed TLS Dated 1980.This item is certified authentic bySignature salesand comes with their Letter of Authenticity.
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Margaret Winifred Lane(23 June 1907 – 14 February 1994) was a British journalist, biographer and novelist, the author of more than two dozen books. She was the second wife ofFrancis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. Margaret Lane was born on 23 June 1907, the only child of Edith (née Webb), daughter of a glass dealer, and Harry George Lane, a newspaper editor. She was educated atSt Stephen\'s College(sisters of St John Baptist) andSt Hugh\'s College, Oxford. After university, she worked as a reporter for theDaily Express, from 1928 to 1931, and then as a special correspondent for theInternational News Servicefrom 1931 to 1932, while there she interviewed the gangsterAl Capone. From 1932 to 1938, she was a journalist for theDaily Mail,where she was the UK\'s highest paid woman journalist. Lane wrote two biographies ofBeatrix Potter,The Tale of Beatrix Potter: a Biographyin 1946, andThe Magic Years of Beatrix Potterin 1978. In 1984, theBBCproduced a two-part television dramatisation of Potter\'s life based on Lane\'s books,The Tale of Beatrix PotterwithPenelope Wiltonin the lead role, that was \"praised as a simple yet intense story with just the right touches of unflinching reserve.\"Lane also wrote books about theBrontë sisters(1953) andSamuel Johnson(1975).Lane wrote more than two dozen books, including novels, travelogues and children\'s books. In 1934, she married Bryan Wallace, a film screenwriter and son of the writerEdgar Wallace. Their marriage was dissolved in 1939. Lane\'s biography of Edgar Wallace was published in 1938. On 1 February 1944, she marriedFrancis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon(1901–1990), who had divorced his first wife Cristina (who then marriedWogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford) the previous year.They had two daughters, the writerSelina Hastings(Lady Selina Shirley Hastings, born 1945), and Lady Caroline Harriet Hastings (born 1946). She died inSouthamptonon 14 February 1994.