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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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.

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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Rigby, Elizabeth, editor. Life of John Gibson, R.A., Sculptor. Longmans, Green, 1870.

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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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.