Background
Margaret Harries was born in Shropshire in 1797.
Margaret Harries was born in Shropshire in 1797.
She is considered one of the first female biographers. Wilson was content to be "a domestic poet" as she considered that men could have larger ambitions. Wilson had a number of children and several died and this became a theme of several of her publications.
She wrote a poem in tribute to Anna Brownell Jameson who had the clever idea of writing a book about the fictional and actual loves of the famous poets of the time.
The Loves of the Poets enabled readers to put themselves in the role of having a poet as an admirer. She wrote poems, prose and music and this was presented in her own 1833 publication, Louisiana Ninon, or, Leaves for the Album.
Contributors to this included the notable writers Mary Howitt and Agnes Strickland. A publication that became New Monthly Belle Assemblée was also started in 1933 and this also included items on fashion.
Wilson also wrote plays and one was retitled as Venus in Arms and it was performed at the Strand Theatre in 1836.
This was about her fellow writer and playwright which she published in two volumes anonymously in 1839. Wilson is considered one of the first female biographers. In her work Our Actresses, she acknowledges that these 67 women are admired, but they individually do not get a high position in society.
Wilson died in London on 12 January 1846.