Margaret Veley


Margaret Veley was a British author and poet. Born in Braintree, Essex to Augustus Charles Veley and Sophia Ludbey, she remained unmarried. She was second in a family of four daughters. She died in her early forties after a short illness "caused by a chill and ending in an affection of the throat."

Style

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

Having the theme womanly self-sacrifice, it appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine. It was published in three volumes in the latter year.