Margaret Emma Faith Irwin (1889 ... 11 December 1969) was an English author of several important historical novels, as well as a factual biography of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Irwin was born in London, England, and educated at Clifton High School in Bristol, and at Oxford University. She began writing books and short stories in the early 1920s. She married children's author and illustrator John Robert Monsell in 1929.
Her novels were esteemed for the accuracy of their historical research, and she became a noted authority on the Elizabethan and early Stewart era. One of her novels, Young Bess about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I, was made into a movie starring Jean Simmons.
Young Bess (1953) an adaptation of the book of the same title and Elizabeth, Captive Princess.
"[The Doughty Plot] [1]" (1962) An episode of the Television series "Sir Francis Drake" adapted from her own story and screenplay co-written by Margaret Irwin.