Margery Lawrence

Margery Lawrence (8 August 1889 – 13 November 1969) (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) was an English Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories. She was born Margery Harriet Lawrence, in Wolverhampton. Her father was solicitor Richard J. Lawrence, her mother was called Grace, and she had at least two siblings Allan and Monica. Her father published her early poetry in Songs of Childhood, and Other Verses, in 1913. Her earliest collections, the Round Table sequence, include Nights of the Round Table (1926) and The Terraces of Night (1932). During the 1920s she wrote general fiction, and her 1925 novel Red Heels was filmed by the Austrian film company Sascha Film as Das Spielzeug von...