About Margaret Agnes Paul
Lived 1829 – 1905 (aged 75–76). Margaret Agnes Paul was a British writer and novelist.
Margaret Agnes Paul (18 July 1829 – 30 March 1905) was a Scottish novelist.
Margaret Agnes Colvile was born on 18 July 1829, one of sixteen children of Andrew Colvile, a governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Mary Louisa Eden, daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. Her siblings included James William Colvile, a judge in colonial India; Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land and the Hudson's Bay Company; Isabella Colville, mother of football pioneer Francis Marindin; and Georgiana Mary, Baroness Blatchford.
In 1856, she married clergyman and religious author Charles Kegan Paul. They had five children, including authors and translators Eden Paul and Nancy Margaret Paul.
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Scottish novelist (1829-1905)
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Margaret Agnes Paul was born in 1829 in Dunfermline.
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Margaret Agnes Paul died in 1905.
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Margaret Agnes Paul was a writer and novelist.
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