Marghanita Laski
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Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. She also wrote three film scripts, co-authored a television series, and made a substantial contribution of quotations for the Oxford English Dictionary.
's novels address class issues and gender barriers, often satirically. They reflect the political, social, and economic anxieties and tensions felt in England during the Second World War and the Cold War. A self-professed atheist, ML wrote secular studies of ecstatic experiences.
, a cultural force in twentieth-century Britain, published six novels, four biographies (one on multiple subjects), an anti-nuclear play, a collection of children's stories, three quasi-scientific investigations into secular and religious experiences, and various short stories, including a ghost story and an anti-nuclear fiction. She also edited various collections: poetry, children's stories, and essays on
. Her articles and book reviews appeared in the - BirthName: Esther Pearl Laski
- Nickname: MarghanitaMarghanita, which is an affectionate adaptation of the Aramaic word for pearl.'s father gave her the nicknameShe began using the nickname as her regular given name while she was still a child.
- Married: Howard
- Pseudonym: Sarah Russell