Margaret S. Ogden

Margaret Sinclair Ogden ( Holderman; August 2, 1909 – April 7, 1988) was an American historian and lexicographer. A 1960 Guggenheim Fellow, she was a historian of medieval medicine of Western Europe, and in addition to publishing two edited versions of medieval medicine texts, co-authored English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century with her husband Henry V. S. Ogden. She also worked at the University of Michigan as a researcher and editor for their Middle English Dictionary for four decades.

Biography Margaret Sinclair Ogden was born on August 2, 1909, in Asheville, North Carolina. She was the daughter of Clement M. Holderman and Canadian-born writer Elizabeth Sinclair Peck. After attending Berea College (where her mother taught history at the time In 1973, she retired from the Middle English Dictionary. was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the Chirurgia magnas medieval English-language translations. She published an edition of the Chirurgia magna in 1971, known as The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac,

Sinclair died on April 7, 1988, in Stamford, Connecticut. (with Henry V. S. Ogden) English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century (1955) (ed.) The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac (1972)