Margaret Louisa Woods

20 November 1855 - 01 January 1945

Standard Name: Woods, Margaret Louisa

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Mabel Birchenough	MB had two brothers and four sisters. Every one of her sisters became a writer of some kind: Margaret Louisa Woods was a poet and novelist; Emily Tennyson Bradley , was a historian and editor...
Family and Intimate relationships	Jonathan Swift	His first involvement, which began in 1695, was with Jane Waring or Varina, who undoubtedly hoped to marry him. Esther Johnson or Stella, whom he met as a child at Sir William Temple's...
Friends, Associates	Marie Belloc Lowndes	MBL was an early member of Mary Cholmondeley 's Give and Take Club for women writers, and a founding member of another women's luncheon club, the Thirty . This included women from all walks of...
Friends, Associates	Ménie Muriel Dowie	As a public literary figure MMD moved amongst the major writers of her day. At the Women Writers' Dinner of the New Vagabonds Club in June 1895, she spoke alongside Adeline Sergeant , Christabel Coleridge
Friends, Associates	Annie S. Swan	She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward , Lucas Malet , Lucy Clifford , Sarah Grand , Violet Hunt
Leisure and Society	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell , Arnold Bennett , Rhoda Broughton , Lucy Clifford , Henry James , Elizabeth Robins , the Tennyson s, Josephine Ward , and Margaret Woods . Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray, 1924. 285-7
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	Reviews were positive. Novelist Margaret Woods felt that the archaic world it depicted was the root of Marcella's charm. Watters, Tamie, and Mary Augusta Ward. “Introduction”. Marcella, Virago, 1984, p. vii - xvi. xvi Margaret Oliphant criticised the author in Blackwood's for asking readers to surrender all our...
politics	May Sinclair	Other Vice-Presidents at this time included Margaret Baillie-Reynolds , Marie Belloc Lowndes , Sarah Grand , Emily Morse Symonds , Margaret Woods , and Edith Zangwill . Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 96 Sinclair, however, could not approve the increasingly...
Textual Features	Lady Margaret Sackville	This early anthology of poetry by women includes poems by Jane Barlow , Anna Bunston , Frances Cornford , Olive Custance , Michael Field (Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper ), Harriet Hamilton King
Textual Production	Elizabeth De la Pasture	Other women among the signatories were Florence Bell , Elizabeth Robins , and Margaret Louisa Woods . The letter asserts that the entire group were to be received by the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Timeline

By 3 September 1887

Margaret Louisa Woods published her first novel, A Village Tragedy.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

3123 (1887): 307

By 3 August 1889

Lyrics and Ballads, Margaret Louisa Woods ' first volume of poetry, was published.

Athenæum. J. Lection.

3223 (1889): 157

1891

Margaret Louisa Woods published Esther Vanhomrigh, a historical romance centred on one of the women Swift loved. She was an interesting subject: a poet and letter-writer herself, who pursued Swift to Ireland when he...

1894

The Vagabonds by Margaret Louisa Woods , published this year, is a novel that explores male perceptions of women.