Margaret Legge

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ML , author of seven novels published between 1912 and 1929, used her fiction to discuss issues of marriage, women's suffrage, the difficulty of an older generation in adapting to modern life, and utopianism presented in the guise of fantasy. Her heroines tend to seek independence but choose to be protected; happy endings are often combined with deaths or changes of partner; the only consistent thread seems to be dissatisfaction with the status quo.
  • BirthName: Margaret Legge

Milestones

22 August 1872

Margaret Legge was born on this day, the youngest in a family of four, probably at Derby.
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By 30 April 1912

Margaret Legge published her first novel, A Semi-Detached Marriage, which criticises the inequality embedded in marriage law and customs.
Dated from the Cambridge University Library acquisition stamp.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

27 March 1914

The Rebellion of Esther, a feminist novel by Margaret Legge , appeared, again from publisher Alston Rivers .
Catalogue of Copyright Entries. Vol. 11, U.S. Copyright Office, 1914.

By 24 January 1929

Margaret Legge published her final novel, The Crystal Rabbit, which is again set in Brazil.
A children's book of the same title was published by in the USA Stephanie Mellen in 1993.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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3 April 1957

ML died unmarried at the age of eighty-four.
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm.

Biography

Birth and Family

22 August 1872

Margaret Legge was born on this day, the youngest in a family of four, probably at Derby.
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.