# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-forster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:07:17.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-forster"
name: "Margaret Forster"
slug: "margaret-forster"
description: "Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives."
tagline: "British writer (1938–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Margaret_Forster.jpg/330px-Margaret_Forster.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1938-05-25"
deathDate: "2016-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             1.928079571537873
  historical:           9.256124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286976/"
    handle:    "nm0286976"
sources:
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    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارغريت فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارجريت فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارقریت فورستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Forster"
    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Forster"
    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Forster"
    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Forster"
    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מרגרט פורסטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q527146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1186906"
    title: "Margaret Forster"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump