About Margaret Armour
Lived 1860 – 1943 (aged 83). Margaret Armour was a British poet, translator, writer and novelist.
Margaret Armour (10 September 1860 – 13 October 1943) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and translator. In 1895 Armour married William Brown MacDougall. She translated the Nibelungenlied from Middle High German into English prose, first published in 1897 as The Fall of the Nibelungs. In 1910 she translated The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, and in 1928 she translated Gudrun.
Selected works Anthology The Eerie Book (1898) London: Shiells. Ed. Margaret Armour. Illust. William Brown Macdougall. Retrieved 3 February 2026 – via Internet Archive.
Prose The Home and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson (1895) Agnes of Edinburgh (1910)
Poetry Songs of Love and Death (1896) Thames Sonnets and Semblances (1897) The Shadow of Love and Other Poems (1898)
Translations (Armour translated vols. 10–12.)
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Scottish poet, novelist and translator (1860-1943)
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Margaret Armour was born on 10 September 1860 in Abercorn.
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Margaret Armour died on 13 October 1943 in Edinburgh.
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