Margaret Gatty

03 June 1809 - 04 October 1879

MG was a popular and influential children's writer (of fiction and a famous periodical) and scientific writer in the mid-nineteenth century. She began by publishing a biography of her father. Apart from her writings she was also a serious scientist.

Milestones

3 June 1809

Margaret Scott (later MG ) was born at Burnham in Essex, the younger of the two daughters in her family.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

1855

MG issued the first volume of Parables from Nature; four more appeared by 1871: a selection followed in 1872 and a collected edition was published posthumously.

Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1872

MG published her two last books, in each of which she harks back to an early hobby: The Book of Sun-Dials (one of her best-known) and A Book of Emblems. With Interpretations thereof.

Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

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4 October 1873

MG died in her sixties at Ecclesfield, after a long illness which produced paralysis and loss of speech.

Ewing, Juliana Horatia. “Margaret Gatty, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

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Biography

Birth and Family

3 June 1809

Margaret Scott (later MG ) was born at Burnham in Essex, the younger of the two daughters in her family.

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.