Audrey Argall (later Argall-Glasgow, 20 December 1898 – 22 June 1981) was a New Zealand freelance writer and magazine editor.[1]
Born in Coromandel on 20 December 1898, Argall was the daughter of Albert Edward Argall, a gold mine manager, and Mary Selina Argall (née Clymo).[2][3] In the 1920s and 1930s, Argall lived in the provincial New Zealand town of Paeroa, where she helped her aunt run a nursing home.[1][4]
Argall wrote fiction and poetry in her spare time. In 1931, she won a short-story competition run by the magazine Australian Woman's Mirror, with her entry Farewell Pioneer, an historical romance.[5]
In 1932, Argall was invited to edit a new magazine, the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, which was launched in December of that year.[6] She wrote articles for the magazine and edited it. The publishing company struggled with the venture, however, and it was sold to local politician Ellen Melville after a few months and then to Vernon Dyson, whose wife Hedda Dyson took over the editorship.[1]
In 1968, Argall married William Glasgow in Auckland. She died in Auckland on 22 June 1981, and her body was cremated at Purewa Crematorium.[7]
