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MRS. MARGARET (HAMILTON ARGLES) ("The Duchess"), an Irish novelist; born about 1855.
The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she was left a widow with a young family to support, whereupon she took to literature. to literature. She wrote: "Phyllis" Molly Bawn" (18 (1878);" Fairy Lillian" ( 1879); "Beauty's Daugh- ; " Airy HUNT HUNDRED DAYS, the period be- ters" (1880) ; "Mrs. Geoffrey" (1881) "Faith and Unfaith" (1881) "Portia" Rosmoyne" (1883); "O Tender Dolores" (1885); "In Durance Vile" (1885); (1885) "Lady Branksmere" (1886) "A Modern Circe" (1887) ; "The Duch- "Lady Valworth's Diamonds" (1886); ess" (1887); " Undercurrents" (1888); "Hon. Mrs. "Hon. Mrs. Vereker" (1888). She died Cork co., Jan. 24, 1897. land, in Cork, 16 miles W. N. W. of