Dorothy Margaret Stuart, ''née'' Browne (1889,

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– 14 September 1963), was a

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and writer. In 1924 she won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for her "Fencers' song" cycle, ''Sword Songs''. 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

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from 1930 onwards, edited its ''News-Letter'' and contributed essays and book reviews to its journal, ''English''.Obituary in ''English'', Volume 14, Issue 84, Autumn 1963
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Selected bibliography

*''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)

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1889 births 1963 deaths English women poets Olympic silver medalists in art competitions 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Art competitors at the 1924 Summer Olympics {{UK-poet-stub