Aldiss, Margaret
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1933-1997) UK editor and bibliographer, married to Brian W Aldiss. Her three bibliographies of her husband's work – Item Forty-Three; Brian W Aldiss; a Bibliography 1954-1962 (1962 chap) as by Margaret Manson, Item Eighty-Three; Brian W Aldiss; A Bibliography 1954-1972 (1972 chap) and The Work of Brian W Aldiss: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (1992) – are extremely useful aids to the study of his complicated oeuvre. She also co-edited with Frank Hatherley and Malcolm Edwards a 65th birthday tribute: A Is for Brian: A 65th Birthday Present for Brian W Aldiss (anth/festschrift 1990). His moving account of her last days is the subject of When the Feast Is Finished: Reflections on Terminal Illness (1999), a memoir; and A Plutonian Monologue on His Wife's Death (2000 chap), a memorial poem. [JC]
Margaret Christie Aldiss
born Maidstone, Kent: 23 May 1933
died Oxford, Oxfordshire: 6 November 1997
works
- Item Forty-Three; Brian W Aldiss; A Bibliography 1954-1962 (Birmingham, England: Dryden Press, 1962) as by Margaret Manson [bibliography: chap: pb/nonpictorial]
- Item Eighty-Three; Brian W Aldiss; A Bibliography 1954-1972 (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: SF Horizons, 1972) [bibliography: chap: exp of the above: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Work of Brian W Aldiss: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide (San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1992) [bibliography: exp vt of the above: in the publisher's Bibliographies of Modern Authors series: pb/]
- Item Eighty-Three; Brian W Aldiss; A Bibliography 1954-1972 (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: SF Horizons, 1972) [bibliography: chap: exp of the above: pb/nonpictorial]
works as editor
- A Is for Brian: A 65th Birthday Present for Brian W Aldiss (London: Avernus, 1990) with Frank Hatherley and Malcolm Edwards [anth: festschrift: pb/Joseph Reed]
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