Margaret Sandbach

28 April 1812 - 23 June 1852

MS 's literary career was truncated after only eleven years by her battle with breast cancer. During the mid-nineteenth century she published six works, including poetry, fiction, and two verse dramas.

Milestones

28 April 1812

Margaret Roscoe, who became MS , was born in Liverpool, the only sister to two brothers, one of whom died in infancy.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 9 May 1840

MS , as Mrs. Henry R. Sandbach, published her first volume of poetry, a slim collection of predominantly short lyrics entitled Poems.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

654 (1840): 368

By July 1850

As Mrs. Henry R. Sandbach, MS published a work of fiction: Hearts in Mortmain; and, Cornelia, two titles sharing a single volume.

OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

1187 (1850): 789

By 13 December 1851

MS , as the Author of Hearts in Mortmain, published her last work, the novel Spiritual Alchemy; or, Trials Turned to Gold, in two volumes.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

1259 (1851): 1306

23 June 1852

MS died in her sleep after a long, painful battle with breast cancer.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Rigby, Elizabeth, editor. Life of John Gibson, R.A., Sculptor. Longmans, Green.

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Biography

Birth and Family

28 April 1812

Margaret Roscoe, who became MS , was born in Liverpool, the only sister to two brothers, one of whom died in infancy.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.