Margaret I. Ogumefu (Baumann)
[Marguerite Lees] , 1905 - 1990
M. I. Ogumefu (23 Apr 1905–16 Feb 1990) was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England as Margaret Irene Sarah Baumann. She married Michael Gladstone Ogumefu, originally from Lagos, Nigeria. After his death in 1927, she published two books collecting Nigerian folk and fairy tales: both in London in 1929: Ajapa the Tortoise as Margaret I. Bauman, and Yoruba Legends as M. I. Ogumefu. Under this name, she is currently considered a "single-book author". In the 1950s–1980s, she also published over 40 books of fiction as Marguerite Lees. Her books were mostly romantic novels set in hospitals with nurse protagonists and were published in the series Harlequin Romance.
Source:
British women writers of fiction (accessed: April 30, 2021),
ancestry.fr (Baumann family; Lees Family Tree),
Marguerite Lees (accessed: April 30, 2021).
Bio prepared by Marta Pszczolińska, University of Warsaw, m.pszczolinska@al.uw.edu.pl
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