Margaret Crosland (writer)

Publications

Works

Translations

• The flesh in the mirror by Félicien Marceau. Translated from the French Chair et cuir. London: Vision Press, 1953.
• Selected writings of de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1953.
• First poems by Minou Drouet. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956.
• Paris Album, 1900–1914 by Jean Cocteau. London: W. H. Allen, 1956.
• Opium: the diary of a cure by Jean Cocteau. London: Peter Owen, 1957.
• Then there was fire by Minou Drouet. London: Hamilton, 1957.
• The conquest of fire by Pierre Lacroix.
• Ravel by Vladimir Jankélévitch. New York, London: Grove Press, 1959.
• Elisa by Edmond de Goncourt. London: Neville Spearman, 1959.
• The story of Reynard by Maurice Genevoix. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959.
• Germany by Joseph Rovan. London, Viking Press. 1959.
• The fifteen wonders of the world by René Poirier. London: Victor Gollancz, 1960.
• French leave by Marcel Mouloudji. London: Neville Spearman, 1962.
• Earth by Émile Zola. London: New English Library, 1962.
• De Sade Quartet by the Marquis de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1963.
• A pictorial history of magic and the supernatural by Maurice Bessy. London: Spring Books, 1963.
• Napoleon by Octave Aubry. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1964.
• Eugenie de Franval, and other stories by the Marquis de Sade. Spearman, 1965.
• The gift of indifference by Cécile Arnaud. London: Heinemann, 1965.
• Secrets of the Gotha by Ghislain de Diesbach. London: Chapman & Hall, 1967.
• The other face of love by Raymond de Becker. London: Neville Spearman & Rodney Books, 1967.
• Stories and drawings by Roland Topor. London: Peter Owen, 1968.
• Le livre blanc by Jean Cocteau. London: Owen, 1969.
• The other woman by Colette. London: Peter Owen, 1971.
• Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings by Jean Cocteau. London: Peter Owen, 1972.
• The thousand and one mornings by Colette. London: Owen, 1973.
• Retreat from love by Colette. London: Owen, 1974.
• Duo; and, Le Toutonier: two novels, London: Owen, 1976.
• The life of a simple man by Emile Guillamin. London: Sinclair Browne, 1983.
• The mystified magistrate: four stories by the Marquis de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1963.
• Across the Acheron by Monique Wittig. London: Peter Owen, 1987.
• The gothic tales of the Marquis de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1990.
• My life by Edith Piaf. London; Chester Springs, Pa.: Peter Owen, 1990.
• The rear view: a brief and elegant history of bottoms through the ages by Jean Luc Hennig. London: Souvenir Press, 1995.
• The eye of the prophet by Kahlil Gibran. London: Souvenir Press.
• The crimes of love by the Marquis de Sade. London: Peter Owen, 1996.
• The world of the castrati : the history of an extraordinary operatic phenomenon by Patrick Barbier. 1996.
• God remained outside: an echo of Ravensbrück by Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz. London: Souvenir Press, 1999.
• Rough trade by Dominique Manotti. London: Arcadia, 2003.

• The vampire: the anthology. Translation from the Italian I vampiri tra noi, ed. by Ornella Volta and Valeria Riva. London: N. Spearman, 1963.
• Hebdomeros: a novel by Giorgio de Chirico. London: Peter Owen, 1968.
• Medieval goldsmith's work by Isa Belli Barsali. Feltham: Hamlyn, 1969.
• Precolumbian terracottas by Franco Monti. Feltham: Hamlyn, 1969.
• A mania for solitude: selected poems 1930–1950 by Cesare Pavese. Translated from the Italian. London: Owen, 1969.
• Gothic illuminated manuscripts by Emma Coen Pirani. London: Hamlyn, 1970.
• The memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico by Giorgio de Chirico. London: Peter Owen, 1971.
• European carpets by Michele Campana. London, etc.: Hamlyn, 1974.

  Other writing

• Strange tempe, London: Fortune Press, 1945.
• The Happy Yes: An anthology of marriage proposals, London: Ernest Benn, 1949.
• Madame Colette: a provincial in Paris, London: P. Owen, 1953.
• Ballet carnival: a companion to ballet, London: Arco Publishers, 1955.
• Jean Cocteau, London: P. Nevill, 1955.
• Home book of opera. London: Arco Publishers, 1957.
• The young ballet lover's companion, London: Souvenir Press, 1962.
• Ballet lovers' dictionary, London: Arco Publications, 1962.
• Louise of Stolberg, Countess of Albany. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1962.
• A traveller's guide to literary Europe. London: H. Evelyn, 1965–67.
• Selected letters by the Marquis de Sade. Translated by W. J. Strachan. London: Owen, 1965.
• Ten years exile: or memoirs of that interesting period of the life of the Baroness de Staël by Germaine de Staël. Fontwell: Centaur Press, 1968.
• Colette – the difficulty of loving: a biography, London: Owen, 1973.
• Women of iron and velvet, and the books they wrote in France, London: Constable, 1976.
• Raymond Radiguet: a biographical study with selections from his work, London: Peter Owen, 1976.
• Spanish studies: literature, 1490–1700.
• The leather jacket: stories by Cesare Pavere. Translated by Alma Murch. London: Quartet Books, 1980.
• Beyond the lighthouse : English women novelists in the twentieth century, London: Constable, 1981.
• Piaf, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985.
• To the end of the world by Blaise Cendrars, translated by Alan Brown. London: Peter Owen, 1991.
• Erotica: drawings by Jean Cocteau.
• Simone de Beauvoir: the woman and her work, London: Heinemann, 1992.
• Sade's wife : the woman behind the Marquis, London, CHester Springs, Pa.: P. Owen, 1995.
• The enigma of Giorgio de Chirico, London: Peter Owen, 1999.
• Madame de Pompadour: sex, culture and power, Stroud: Sutton, 2000.
• Meeting & parting: new and selected poems 1941–2003, London: Centaur, 2004.
• The mysterious mistress: the life and legend of Jane Shore, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006.