Margaret Callow

Margaret came to writing late after many years in nursing and later teaching all aspects of Health Care at Norwich City college.

She has written poetry for many years, much of which has been published by Poetry Now and Random Press. It was whilst researching her roots that she discovered her great great grandmother ended her days in an Union Workhouse in Shropshire. She appears on the register of 1900 as an inmate pauper and died seven years later.

Here was Margaret's inspiration. Stories were to be told. Coupled with her love of social history, she set out to research and write about the nameless or barely known people who contributed in some way to bring about the freedoms we enjoy today. Many, like her ancestor have no headstone, some even no grave and certainly no blue plaque on a wall somewhere.

A Rebellious Oak was published by Running Hare Press in March 2012. Two more books have followed and now a fourth is partially completed about a notorious murderer in Norfolk in 1848.

Margaret lives in North Norfolk with her husband and her children and grandchildren close by.