Margaret Veley

Margaret Veley (12 May 1843 – 7 December 1887) was a British author and poet. Born in Braintree, Essex to Augustus Charles Veley and Sophia Ludbey,[1] she remained unmarried.She was second in a family of four daughters.[2] She died in her early forties after a short illness "caused by a chill and ending in an affection of the throat."[3]

Style

Margaret Veley's writing ranged from short and long fiction to poetry. During the 1870s and 1880s she published short stories for magazines, three novels, and a two-volume collection of stories. After her early death a volume of her poetry was issued. Although earlier works included elements of romance and humour, her later works were deemed melancholy and depressing, a tone which was ascribed to the premature deaths of her father and two sisters.[4]

Works

  • For Percival. 1878

Having the theme womanly self-sacrifice, it appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine. It was published in three volumes in the latter year.[5]

  • Mrs. Austin. 1880
  • Rachel's inheritance; or, Damocles. 1882
  • Mitchelhurst Place. 1884
  • A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. 1888[6] published A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. by Sir Leslie Stephen.

Notes

  1. ↑ Veley, preface p. vii
  2. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
  3. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
  4. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
  5. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
  6. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii

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