Margaret Gillies

Family biographer Carl Ray Woodring numbers AMH with a group of Pre-Raphaelite sisters, including Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon) , Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Margaret Gillies , who associated themselves with innovation in...

She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold , Mary and William Howitt , and Harriet Martineau . The difficulties of social life for unattached women are visible in her regret and anxiety over...

On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies (a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived...