Author: Margaret (Meg) Woodward

I was born into a family where most of the men were farmers and most of the women graduated, education being their 'share' of the inheritance. For several generations it has been the women who became scholars or adventurers (except for the boys called to war) or who entered professions like teaching or medicine. Raised in rural NE Scotland I graduated from Aberdeen University to work with the O.U.P. (at a time when the London office was Amen House near St Paul's, backing on to the Old Bailey and where, down in the basement, a remnant of the old Roman Wall around Londinium still survived.)

Publishing, teaching at all levels, raising a family while following a scientific civil servant husband around the country; many crafts, music, dancing, gardening, bee-keeping; voluntary work for the National Trust for Scotland involving guiding, preparation of education material, publicity and flower-arranging; building two houses; planting a five acre wood; puppy walking for Guide Dogs for the Blind; two long trips around the world as belated 'gap years'; all of this provided grist for my writing mill which has ground steadily and sometimes successfully since my childhood alongside a very busy life. I write in both English and Doric (NE Scottish dialect), for adults and children, fact, fiction (especially historical) and drama.