Dorothy Margaret Stuart

Dorothy Margaret Stuart, née Browne (1889, Meerbrook, Staffordshire – 14 September 1963), was a British poet and writer.^[1]

Olympic medal record
Art competitions
	1924 Paris	Literature

In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Fencers' song" cycle, Sword Songs.^[2][3]

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.^[4]

Selected bibliography

Magyar Poems (translated by Nora de Vállyi and Dorothy M. Stuart, foreword by Ármin Vámbéry)

• 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)

References

1. Pine, L. G., ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960, p.372
2. Methuen: London 1925, 37 pp., with 4 illustrations by Gerald Spencer Pryse (catalogue entry, Bodleian Library); Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxxi
3. "Dorothy Margaret Stuart". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
4. Obituary in English, Volume 14, Issue 84, Autumn 1963

External links

• Olympic Profile
• Olympedia Profile