About Margaret Holford
Lived 1778 – 1852 (aged 73–74). Margaret Holford was a British poet, translator and writer.
Margaret Holford (1778–1852) (also published as Margaret Hodson) was an English poet and translator. Her most successful work was a historical verse romance, Wallace, or, The Fight of Falkirk.
Life Her mother, also Margaret Holford (1757–1834) was likewise an author, and their works have sometimes been confused in bibliographies. Her father, Allen Holford, died when Margaret Holford the younger was a child. She was the eldest of her parents' four daughters and educated herself through reading at home.
Her later romantic poems included Poems (1811), Margaret of Anjou (1816) and The Past (1819) were not a critical success. Robert Southey stayed for a week with the Hodsons in 1829.
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English poet, translator (1778–1852)
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Margaret Holford was born in 1778.
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Margaret Holford died in 1852 in Dawlish.
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Margaret Holford was a poet, translator and writer.
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