She was educated at Lady Barn House School in Manchester and St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, worked in fashion, then studied English at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was a close friend of Inez Pearn, who was later to become a novelist and marry Stephen Spender and subsequently, after a divorce, Charles Madge. Marghanita Laski was born in Manchester, England, to a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals ( Neville Laski was her father, Moses Gaster her grandfather, and Harold Laski her uncle). She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. Neville Laski (father) Moses Gaster (grandfather) Harold Laski (uncle) Little Boy Lost (1949) The Victorian Chaise-longue (1953)
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