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. 882 Mitchelhurst Place. 1884 A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. 1888 by Sir Leslie Stephen. References Sources Veley, Margaret, and Leslie Stephen. A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1900. googlebooks Retrieved 20 May 2009 "Veley, Margaret." British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. H.W. Wilson Co., New York, 1936 External links 1843 births 1887 deaths English women poets 19th-century English poets 19th-century English women writers 19th-century British writers