Since the end of World War I Storm Jameson has written more than forty novels, a play, television scripts, short stories, criticism, and autobiography.

Though she is best known as a novelist, Jameson's scholarly books are significant contributions to the study of literature and culture. Almost alone among British women novelists of her generation to earn a university graduate degree, she wrote sound books on drama and literature, such as Modern Drama in Europe (1920), The Georgian Novel and Mr. Robinson (1929), The Novel in Contemporary Life (1938), The Writer's Situation and Other Essays (1950), Parthian Words (1970), and Speaking of Stendhal (1979). Her historical and biographical works include The Decline of Merry England (1930), a study of Puritanism, and Morley Roberts: The Last Eminent Victorian (1961). Born in Whitby, Yorkshire, to William Storm Jameson, a sea captain, and Hannah Margaret Gallilee Jameson, Margaret Storm Jameson came from an extremely poor family. It was largely through...