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Margaret Armour

Born

in Abercorn, West Lothian, Scotland

December 10, 1860

Died

October 13, 1943

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

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Margaret Armour was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. She was the eldest daughter of Alexander Henderson Harry Armour (1825 - 1879) and Christina Stewart (1828 - c.1890s). She was educated in Edinburgh, Munich and Paris. She married William Brown MacDougall (1868 - 1936) in a civil ceremony in Glasgow on 11 May 1895, and a church ceremony followed at Morningside Parish Church in Edinburgh on 8 October 1895.

Armour's first book was The Home and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), which she followed with some books of poetry, Songs of Love and Death (1896), Thames Sonnets and Semblances (1897), and The Shadow of Love and Other Poems (1898). A novel, Agnes of Edinburgh, appeared in 1910, and she translated the poetry of Margaret Armour was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. She was the eldest daughter of Alexander Henderson Harry Armour (1825 - 1879) and Christina Stewart (1828 - c.1890s). She was educated in Edinburgh, Munich and Paris. She married William Brown MacDougall (1868 - 1936) in a civil ceremony in Glasgow on 11 May 1895, and a church ceremony followed at Morningside Parish Church in Edinburgh on 8 October 1895.

Armour's first book was The Home and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), which she followed with some books of poetry, Songs of Love and Death (1896), Thames Sonnets and Semblances (1897), and The Shadow of Love and Other Poems (1898). A novel, Agnes of Edinburgh, appeared in 1910, and she translated the poetry of Heinrich Heine for the final three volumes of the twelve volume set of The Works of Heine, published between 1892 and 1905. Her translation from the Middle High German of the Nibelungenlied into what she called “plain prose” first appeared as The Fall of the Nibelungs (1897). It was later included in the Everyman’s Library, with subsequent editions retitled as The Nibelungenlied. Similarly, her translation of Gudrun, which was published in 1928, also appeared in the Everyman’s Library. Along a similar vein of interest, in 1910 she translated Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung.

Margaret’s husband, an etcher, engraver and illustrator, was frequently involved with her books, signing his work as W. Brown MacDougall or W.B. MacDougall. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and in Paris, and in the mid-1890s he contributed to The Yellow Book, The Evergreen, and The Savoy. His work is mostly symbolic, and frequently somber. It sometimes has echoes of Aubrey Beardsley. MacDougall provided a frontispiece illustration of Robert Louis Stevenson for his wife’s first book, and illustrated her poetry volumes and the translations from medieval German.

MacDougall also illustrated Margaret Armour’s one anthology, The Eerie Book (London: J. Shiells and Co., 1898), which contains works by Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, George W.M. Reynolds, Catherine Crowe, and extracts from works by Mary Shelley, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and Thomas de Quincey.

Around the turn of the century, Armour and MacDougall settled in Essex, first in Chingford, and soon afterwards in Debden Green, where MacDougall died on 20 April 1938. Armour returned to Edinburgh, where she died in 1943. They had no children. ...more

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	The Song of the Nibelungs by Margaret Armour (Translation), W.B. Macdougall (Illustrations), Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1897 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eerie Book: Tales of the Macabre and Supernatural 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1898 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs and Shadows by Margaret Armour, Elena Delgado (Illustrator and Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gudrun, done into English really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1928	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of the Nibelungs 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1897 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through the Siege: One Woman's Struggle Back from the Brink of Despair 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romancero, Volume 3: Book III: Last Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Home and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson, with Twelve Illustrations in Photogravure including New Portrait by W. Brown Macdougall by Margaret Armour, W.B. Macdougall (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1895 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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