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Margaret Leigh

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Early career
Writing career
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Last days
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{{for|the English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer|Margaret Elizabeth Leigh}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}Margaret Mary Leigh (17 December 1894 – 7 April 1973) was an English writer who lived extensively in Scotland and wrote about life in crofting communities. She was born in London, England, the cousin of novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the daughter of an Oxford don, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford.^[1]

Early career

Leigh spent many of her early years travelling abroad for her father’s health. At various times, she acted as a governess, teacher and university lecturer. She eventually supported herself and her mother by subsistence farming, first in Cornwall, and later in Scotland.

Writing career

Leigh published a short book of poetry in 1923, Songs from Tani's Garden, before writing her first novel, The Passing of the Pengwerns, in 1924.^[2] Harvest of the Moor recounts her experience farming in Cornwall. In 1939, Leigh rode a horse from Cornwall to Scotland, which became the subject of her third book, A Kingdom for a Horse. She subsequently settled there, living variously at the Isle of Barra, Fernaig in Ross-shire, Smirisary in Moidart and Inverness. Three of her books relate her experience in crofting communities in north-west Scotland before, during and just after World War II.

Works

{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Contribution of 2 poems in Oxford Poetry 1918|publisher=B. H. Blackwell, Oxford|year=1918}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Songs from Tani's Garden|publisher=Privately printed|year=1923}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title= The Passing of the Pengwerns|publisher=Heinemann Ltd., London|year=1924}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Highland Homespun|publisher=Phoenix House, London|year=1936}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Harvest of the Moor|publisher=G. Bell and Sons|year=1937}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Love the Destroyer|publisher=G. Bell and Sons|year=1938}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=My Kingdom for a Horse|publisher=MacMillan & Co, London|year=1939}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=The Further Shore|publisher=Unpublished|year=1939}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=Driftwood and Tangle|publisher=MacMillan & Co, London|year=1941}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=A Spade Among the Rushes|publisher=Phoenix House, London|year=1949}}
{{cite book|last=Leigh|first=Margaret|title=The Fruit in the Seed: Chapters of Autobiography|publisher=Phoenix House, London|year=1952}}

Last days

In 1948, Margaret Leigh converted to Catholicism and in 1950 entered a convent. She died in Inverness, Scotland in 1973.

Sources

1. ^"A Woman at Oxford: Vera Brittain's Somerville Experience," Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'Histoire de L'Education, vol 3, no 1, (Spring, 1991), p 18
2. ^Black, Ronald, Introduction to Driftwood and Tangle by Margaret Leigh, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2010

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