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 was second in a family of four daughters.[2] She never married. She died in her early forties after a short illness "caused by a chill and ending in an affection of the throat."[2]

Career

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.[2]

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.[2]

  • Mrs. Austin. 1880
  • Rachel's inheritance; or, Damocles. 882
  • Mitchelhurst Place. 1884
  • A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. 1888[2] by Sir Leslie Stephen.

References

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

Sources

  • Veley, Margaret, and Leslie Stephen. A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900. googlebooks Retrieved 20 May 2009
  • "Veley, Margaret." British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. H.W. Wilson Co., New York, 1936
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