Margot's

Across the hall from Ricardo is Margot, a single mother trapped in an abusive relationship with a manipulative older man who pays some of her bills but continues to sabotage Margot's artistic aspirations.

George Heymont: Three Unforgettable Characters George Heymont 2011

Gary can barely tolerate Margot's 13-year-old daughter Lattie, a precocious piece of work who likes to snoop around the building, spy on Ricardo, and has no concept of boundaries.

George Heymont: Three Unforgettable Characters George Heymont 2011

He wiped them on Margot's colorful quilt, leaving it flecked with brown, creating a tweedy effect.

Wintering at Montauk Jane Ciabattari 2010

He cut up Margot's sheets with the nail scissors he found in their bathroom.

Wintering at Montauk Jane Ciabattari 2010

Across the hall from Ricardo is Margot, a single mother trapped in an abusive relationship with a manipulative older man who pays some of her bills but continues to sabotage Margot's artistic aspirations.

George Heymont: Three Unforgettable Characters George Heymont 2011

In the original version of The Sixteen Pleasures, Margot's father, Rudy, had his own chapters.

An Interview with Robert Hellenga 2010

Gary can barely tolerate Margot's 13-year-old daughter Lattie, a precocious piece of work who likes to snoop around the building, spy on Ricardo, and has no concept of boundaries.

George Heymont: Three Unforgettable Characters George Heymont 2011

"The extent of Dame Margot's personal involvement has not been in the public domain before," said Dunton.

Margot Fonteyn, British Ballerina, Involved In Plot Overthrow Panama's Government 2010

But then they also played the parts of bossy Margot and henpecked Jerry from next door – here enacting a lewd scene involving a garden hose, there holding an aspirational dinner party featuring a guest cameo from the majestic Kathryn Flett late of this column, who frowned at Margot's avocado mousse and bandied observations on the 1970s Volvo-bothering classes.

Rewind TV: Giles and Sue Live the Good Life, Misfits, Stephen Fry and the Great American Oil Spill, BP: $30 Billion Blowout, Downton Abbey – review Phil Hogan 2010

One of the things that intrigues me is a comment I once came across from one of the Frank family friends about it being a shame Margot's diary didn't survive, since she was the real writer in the family.

If Anne Frank lived Roger Sutton 2007