About Margaret
Margaret originates from North-West London and lives with her husband, Ron, in Milton Keynes. She attended Chiswick Grammar School for Girls and the now University of Westminster. Her early employment was 
in management, but she was always interested in classical novels and enjoyed writing poetry and prose, now being a well-known Arts writer.
Margaret has written eight novels inspired by the great work of Jane Austen, and leads the literary project, Pembury Publishing. Googling the title and author name of The Interloper gives a good idea of how far interest in the literary project has spread.
Margaret is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Member of the Royal Society of Literature and a Member of the Jane Austen Society. She has also represented literature at county level and was a Committee Member of Speakeasy, Milton Keynes Writers Group for ten years. Speakeasy, chaired by Martin Brocklebank, is followed in a number of countries around the world and unusually for an individual arts group, its website received almost a hundred thousand visits in 2010. A description and photo of Martin at a poetry session may be found below.
In her parallel interests, Margaret is also a well-known activist and experienced community lobbyist. She has successfully lobbied for total or partial start-off infrastructure funding for large projects in Milton Keynes, attracting millions of pounds. In some cases, the total projects have been major developments up to and in excess of a hundred milion. She has also facilitated these projects where necessary and thanks to GOSE for advice when starting out.
Margaret also writes influential economic and polical commentary and vision. Apart from personal and written interaction at Government and Government agency level, this includes either contributing articles to, or posting on Reuters (UK), SKY, The Telegraph site (UK/EU), The Periscope Post (US/EU), Matthew Taylor's blog(general), Professor Zeki's Musings (general), The Wall Street Journal (UK/EU) and the US Congressional newspaper, The Hill.com, amongst others. This commentary may be viewed by Googling her name plus the name of the site, except for The Telegraph and Reuters. Further commentary on some of these postings may be seen on News2 and gives an idea of the high percentage of valid forcasting ad strategy.
In addition, Margaret has always been interested in her local area. She helped to establish Wolverton and Greenleys Town Council, completed its draft submission and was Chair of the Interim Council. She also acted as liaison between MKC, Government and WAM, a protest group representing many areas. For the past ten years, she has successfully lobbied for a number of very large projects in Milton Keynes, including the New University, University Centre and the amazing Wolverton Park, which has preserved important parts of the UK's railway heritage in the historic town of Wolverton and has received one international and three national awards; and the Central Milton Keynes West End Phase 1 major development, now recommencing.
Margaret has alway been unfunded in lobbying for these multi-million pound projects and non-political, but greatly assisted by Ron, a former Consulting Engineer, who is a Fellow of several Engineering Societies, and a Member of the Royal Society for Public Health. Ron was involved with the construction of Lloyds of London, waste derived fuel, ejector seats and was one of the Engineers advising the Privy Council in setting up the Engineering Council. Ron prepares the manuscripts for Pembury Publishing and is an experienced project adviser.
They are also Community Lobbyists for the Radcliffe Initiative, Wolverton Swimming Pool complex, and Wolverton health centre, and have lobbied amongst other projects, for Bletchley Park, Stadium MK, green spaces in MK, West End phase 1, City Status and are interested in the Network Rail head office development and Tesco's Wolverton redevelopment.
Margaret was involved in the expansion of women's associations and began to write romantic historical novels with strong female characters more than a decade ago.
Martin Brocklebank opens SPEAKEASY'S BARD TO VERSE poetry night at the famous BULL Hotel in Stony Stratford, UK on January 27th. The Bull Hotel is the one referred to in the well-known saying, 'A cock and bull story.' The evening was very successful and included performances by well-known poets.
