# Marghanita Laski

marghanita laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist; she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories. == Personal life == 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 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 (following divorce) Charles Madge.Whilst at Oxford she met John Eldred Howard, who was a founder of the Cresset Press: the couple married in 1937. During this time she worked in journalism.Laski lived at Capo Di Monte on Judge's Walk in Hampstead in North London, and the Hertfordshire village of Abbots Langley.