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, she was second in a family of four daughters. She never married. She died in her early forties after a short illness "caused by a chill and ending in an affection of the throat."

Career

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.

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. Mrs. Austin. 1880 Rachel's inheritance; or, Damocles. 1882 Mitchelhurst Place. 1884 A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. 1888, with biographical preface by Sir Leslie Stephen.