Margaret Jepson was an English writer and artist, known by her married name Margaret Birkinshaw and by her pen name Pearl Bellairs.
11 Facts About Margaret Jepson
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Margaret Jepson attended London City College and Ealing Technical College Library School and the Slade School of Art.
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In 1928 she married a young doctor, Frank Thornton Birkinshaw, who was a veteran of World War I In 1929 their daughter Jane was born, followed by another daughter in 1931, whom Margaret named Franklin Birkinshaw, but who is better known as feminist writer Fay Weldon.
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Margaret Jepson was singularly unsuited to being a New Zealand doctor's wife.
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Margaret Jepson returned alone to London on a cargo ship, planning to send for her children as soon as possible.
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Margaret Jepson began writing romance novels and stories that were published as serials to support her daughters.
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Margaret Jepson took a variety of jobs, such as painting ladies' powder-boxes.
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Margaret Jepson secretly scratched away at her "magnum opus", a treatise on morality and aesthetics that according to her daughter's autobiography ran to "thousands of overwritten pages, which would get in a hopeless muddle on the kitchen table".
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In 2000, Margaret Jepson broke her hip, after which she moved into a residential home, then a nursing home where she died.
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Margaret Jepson authored her first novel with her father, Edgar Margaret Jepson, in 1932 before writing her first solo novel, Via Panama, which was published in 1934.
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Margaret Jepson wrote serialised novels under the pseudonym Pearl Bellairs.