Marguerite Steen

Marguerite Steen (12 May 1894 – 4 August 1975) was a British writer, most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1951, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Life The daughter of Capt. George Connolly Benson, of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and who was killed in action in Ashanti in 1900, and Margaret Jones, who married shortly before Benson's death, Marguerite was adopted by Joseph and Margaret Steen. In the 1930s she wrote several plays,

Steen's literary agent was A.M. Heath of Holborn, London. The present-day agency recalls her as follows: "Marguerite Steen, whose 1934 novel Matador was one of the agency’s biggest successes to date, would publish more than thirty novels in her career – but, after her death, would have to wait until the emergence of e-books and new markets in the 21st century to be rediscovered."

Her home at the time of her death was the cottage she had shared with Nicholson during the last years of his life, in the village of Blewbury, Berkshire,