Margaret Holford (1778-1852), Margaret of Anjou (1817). Forgotten Books, 2018. Courtesy Amazon.com.
Margaret Holford the younger (baptized 1 June 1778 - 11 September 1852) was an English poet and translator.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Holford was baptised on 1 June 1778 in Chester.[1]
Her mother, also Margaret Holford (1757-1834) was likewise an author, and their works have sometimes been confused in bibliographies.[1]
At the age of 8 she was reading early and late, taking volumes of Shakespeare to bed, writing poetry, and displaying an ‘insatiable’ ‘appetite for all kinds of literature’.[1]
Marriage and career[]
In 1826 she married Septimus Hodson (1768–1833), chaplain in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, who was then the Anglican rector of Thrapston in Northamptonshire. She later wrote under her married name, Margaret Hodson. Her husband died in 1833;[1]
Robert Southey stayed for a week with the Hodsons in 1829.[2] Mrs. Hodson was a correspondent and friend of Southey, and there are several letters addressed to her in the 5th and 6th volumes of his Life (1850).[3]
Among her close associates was Joanna Baillie.[2] She was also acquainted with Coleridge and Landor.[3]
She died in Dawlish, Devon, in September 1852, aged 85.[3]
Writing[]
The earliest published work of Margaret Holford the younger is thought to have been the 2-volume Calaf, a Persian Tale, written when she was 17 and published anonymously about 1798.[4]
Her most successful was a historical verse romance entitled Wallace; or, The fight of Falkirk. Also published anonymously, this appeared in 1809, a year after Walter Scott's Marmion.[1] Wallace, published in 1809, 4to, was noticed in the Quarterly Review (iii. 63).[3]
In 1811 appeared a collection of Poems, 8vo; in 1816 Margaret of Anjou: A poem in ten cantos, 4to; in 1820 Warbeck of Wolfstein, 8vo; and in 1832 her last work, published after her marriage, The Lives of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro; From the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana, 1832, 8vo. This work is dedicated to Southey, and is dated from Sharow Lodge, near Ripon, 12 May 1832.[3]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Elegiac Ode to the Memory of Lieut.-Colonel Vassall. Bristol, UK: printed by Kemp, 1808.
- Wallace; or, The flight of Falkirk: A metrical romance. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1809; Philadelphia: J.& A.Y. Humphreys, 1810.
- Poems. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1811.
- Margaret of Anjou: A poem. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1816.
- The Past, &c. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1819.
Novels[]
- Calaf: A Persian tale. (2 volumes), London: William Lane, at the Minerva Press, 1800.[5]
- First Impressions; or, The portrait: A novel. London: William Lane, at the Minerva Press, 1801.
- Warbeck of Wolfstein. (3 volumes), London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820.
Non-fiction[]
- Memoir of the Life of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall. Bristol, UK: printed by Barry, 1819.
Translated[]
- Italian Stories. London: J. Andrews, printed at Chiswick Press, 1823.
- The Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1832.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Page, George Bernard (1891) "Hodson, Margaret" in Lee, Sidney Dictionary of National Biography 27 London: Smith, Elder, p. 47 Wikisource, Web, July 6, 2020.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sutherland, Kathryn (2004). "Holford , Margaret (bap. 1778, d. 1852)". Holford , Margaret (bap. 1778, d. 1852). Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13450. Retrieved 20 June 2013. Template:Subscription required
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Radcliffe, David. "Margaret Holford (1778-1852)". English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition. http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/authorrecord.php?action=GET&recordid=33367. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Page, 47.
- ↑ Margaret Holford the Younger, Orlando Project. Web, 7 December 2014.
- ↑ Margaret Holford the Younger, Orlando Project. Web, 7 December 2014. WorldCat ascribes this novel to Margaret Holford the elder.
- ↑ Search results = au:Margaret Holford, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 3, 2016.
External links[]
- Poems
- Margaret Holford (1778-1852) info & 10 poems at English Poetry, 1579-1830
- Margaret Holford at AllPoetry (17 poems)
- Books
- Margaret Holford at Amazon.com
- About
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain, the Dictionary of National Biography (edited by Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee). London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900. Original article is at: Hodson, Margaret
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