Marguerite Agnes Power

Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867) was a British novelist, writer for periodicals, and editor throughout the majority of her life.[1]

Biography

Power was born in 1815 to Agnes and Colonel Robert Power. She is thought to have spent her childhood in Ireland where her father managed the estates in County Tyrone after he returned from a career in the British army.[2]

She was a respectable, hardworking writer who was frequently poor. She is often forgotten despite her many contributions. However, her legacy remains within her many works including her contributions to The Keepsake, Book of Beauty and also to the Illustrated London News and other periodicals. She is known for her memoir of her aunt Lady Blessington as well as her book Arabian Days and Nights (1863), which is an account of a winter's residence in Egypt.[3] Miss Power died in July 1867 after a long illness.[1]

Works

Books as writer[4]

  • Evelyn Forester: A Woman's Story (1856)
  • The Foresters, 2 vols
  • Letters of a Betrothed (1858)
  • Nelly Carew, 2 vols (1859)
  • Sweethearts and Wives, 3 vols (1861)

As editor

Power also contributed to Irish Metropolitan Magazine, Forget-me-not, and Once a Week.[4]

References
  1. "3355. Bryan Waller Procter to RB". The Brownings' Correspondence, Wedgestone Press. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  2. Elizabeth Lee, ‘Power, Marguerite Agnes (1815?–1867)’, rev. Samantha Webb, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 Nov 2014
  3. "Marguerite Agnes Power". Dickens Journals Online.
  4. POWER, Miss MARGUERITE A. (1815?–1867). Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 46. Online at Wikisource.
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