Dorothy Margaret Stuart

Dorothy Margaret Stuart, née Browne (1889, Meerbrook, Staffordshire – 14 September 1963) was a British poet and writer.

In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Fencers' song" cycle, Sword Songs.

Her other works include literary and historical biographies, historical non-fiction particularly concentrating on the lives of women and children, and history stories for children. She was a member of the English Association from 1930 onwards, edited its News-Letter and contributed essays and book reviews to its journal, English.

Selected bibliography



 * Lyrics of Old London (1915)
 * Sword Songs (1925)
 * The Boy Through the Ages (1926)
 * The Book of Other Lands (1926)
 * Horace Walpole (1927)
 * The Girl Through the Ages (1933)
 * Chivalry and Social Life in the Middle Ages (1927)
 * Christina Rossetti (1930)
 * Men and Women of Plantagenet England  (1932)
 * The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933)
 * Sir Walter Scott: Some Centenary Reflections (1934)
 * The King's Service (1935)
 * Molly Lepell: Lady Hervey (1936)
 * King George the Sixth (1937)
 * The Daughters of George III (1939)
 * A Child's Day Through the Ages (1941)
 * The Mother of Victoria: A Period Piece (1942)
 * The Children's Chronicle (1944)
 * Historic Cavalcade (1945)
 * The English Abigail (1946)
 * The Young Clavengers (1947)
 * The Five Wishes (1950)
 * Daughter of England: A New Study of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Her Family (1951)
 * The Story of William the Conqueror (1952)
 * Portrait of the Prince Regent (1953)
 * Dearest Bess (1955)
 * London Through the Ages (1956)
 * A Book of Cats: Legendary, Literary and Historical (1959)