{{Short description|British novelist, writer for periodicals and editor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} {{ course assignment | course = Education Program:University of Maryland, College Park/WMST 250: Women, Art, and Culture (2014 Q3) | term = 2014 Q3 }} '''Marguerite Agnes Power''' (1815–1867) was a British novelist, writer for periodicals, and editor throughout the majority of her life.<ref name="3355. Bryan Waller Procter to RB">{{cite web | url=http://www.browningscorrespondence.com/correspondence/3687/ |title=3355. Bryan Waller Procter to RB |publisher=The Brownings' Correspondence, Wedgestone Press |accessdate=9 November 2014 }}</ref>
==Biography== Power was born in 1815 to Agnes and Colonel Robert Power. She is thought to have spent her childhood in Ireland, where her father managed the estates in County Tyrone after he returned from a career in the British army.<ref name=odnb>Elizabeth Lee, ‘Power, Marguerite Agnes (1815?–1867)’, rev. Samantha Webb, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22669, accessed 15 Nov 2014]</ref>
She was a respectable, hardworking writer who was frequently poor. She is often forgotten despite her many contributions. However, her legacy remains within her many works, including her contributions to ''The Keepsake, Book of Beauty'' and also to the ''Illustrated London News'' and other periodicals. She is known for her memoir of her aunt Lady Blessington, as well as her book ''Arabian Days and Nights'' (1863), an account of a winter's residence in Egypt.<ref name=djo>{{cite web |url=http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/marguerite-agnes-power.html |title=Marguerite Agnes Power |publisher= Dickens Journals Online | accessdate= }}</ref>
Power died in July 1867 after a long illness.<ref name="3355. Bryan Waller Procter to RB" />
==Works== Books as writer:<ref name=DNB/> * ''Evelyn Forester: A Woman's Story'' (1856) * ''The Foresters'', 2 vols * ''Letters of a Betrothed'' (1858) * ''Nelly Carew'', 2 vols (1859) * ''Sweethearts and Wives'', 3 vols (1861) As editor * ''The Keepsake'', annual volumes for 1851 to 1857
Power also contributed to ''Irish Metropolitan Magazine'', ''Forget-me-not'', and ''Once a Week''.<ref name=DNB/>
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<ref name=DNB> [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Power,_Marguerite_A._(DNB00) POWER, Miss MARGUERITE A. (1815?–1867)]. ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 46''. Online at Wikisource.</ref>
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==External links== * {{LCAuth|n88127875|Marguerite A. Power|3|ue}}
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