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Margaret Storm Jameson was born in Whitby in 1891. Her father and grandfather were successful shipbuilders. She studied at Leeds University and was elected Secretary of the Women's Representative Council. After leaving university she moved to London where she taught at the Working Women's College.
Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, her father joined the Royal Navy and became captain of the Saxon Prince. In the spring of 1916 the Saxon Prince was sunk off the Irish coast and Jameson was taken prisoner and sent to a military camp at Hamburg.
Her brother, Harold Jameson, although only seventeen, joined the Royal Flying Corps. By 1916 he was a 2nd Lieutenant and had been given the DCM: "for conspicuous coolness and gallantry on several occasions in connection with wireless work under fire." Later that year he won the Military Cross for attacking a German kite balloon under heavy fire. He was killed in January 1917 after being shot down while over No Man's Land.
Her first novel, The Pot Boils, was published in 1919. This was followed by many other works of fiction including a trilogy about a family of Yorkshire shipbuilders: The Lovely Ship (1927), The Voyage Home (1930) and a Richer Dust (1931). Other books include Women Against Men (1933), Company Parade (1934), Love in Winter (1935), and None Turn Back (1936).
Jameson's husband, Guy Chapman, wrote several books about his experiences of the First World War. Jameson also published poems, essays, biographies and several volumes of autobiography including No Time Like the Present (1933) and Journey from the North (1969). For many years Jameson was president of the International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists (PEN). Storm Jameson died in 1986.
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(1) In her autobiography, Journey From the North (1969), Storm Jameson explained why she became involved in political campaigns during the period leading up to the Second World War.
The impulse that turned so many of us into pamphleteers and amateur politicians was neither mean nor trivial. The evil we were told to fight off was really evil, the threat to human decency a real threat. I doubt whether any of us believed that books would be burned in England, or eminent English scholars, scientists, writers forced to beg hospitality in some other country. Or that, like Lorca, we would be murdered. Or tortured and then killed in concentration camps. But all these things were happening abroad, and intellectuals who refused to protest were in effect blacklegs.
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