Margaret Veley

Margaret Veley (12 May 1843 – 7 December 1887) was a British author and poet. Born in Braintree, Essex to Augustus Charles Veley and Sophia Ludbey,^[1] she remained unmarried.She was second in a family of four daughters.^[2] She died in her early forties after a short illness "caused by a chill and ending in an affection of the throat."^[3]

Style

Margaret Veley's writing ranged from short and long fiction to poetry. During the 1870s and 1880s she published short stories for magazines, three novels, and a two-volume collection of stories. After her early death a volume of her poetry was issued. Although earlier works included elements of romance and humour, her later works were deemed melancholy and depressing, a tone which was ascribed to the premature deaths of her father and two sisters.^[4]

Works

• For Percival. 1878

Having the theme womanly self-sacrifice, it appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine. It was published in three volumes in the latter year.^[5]

• Mrs. Austin. 1880
• Rachel's inheritance; or, Damocles. 1882
• Mitchelhurst Place. 1884
• A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. 1888^[6] published A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. by Sir Leslie Stephen.

Notes

1. Veley, preface p. vii
2. Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
3. Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
4. Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
5. Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii
6. Stephen, Sir Leslie Introduction. "Preface." Margaret Veley. A Marriage of Shadows. Titlepage Title: A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. London: Smith, Elder, 1888. vii-xxiv: vii

References

• Veley, Margaret, and Leslie Stephen. A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900. googlebooks Retrieved May 20, 2009
• "Veley, Margaret." British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. H.W. Wilson Co., New York, 1936
• For Percival
• A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems

External links

• Works by Margaret Veley at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Margaret Veley at Internet Archive