The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Hungerford, Margaret Hamilton Wolfe Argles

HUNGERFORD, Margaret Hamilton Wolfe Argles (&ldquo;&rdquo;), Irish novelist: b. Ross, Ireland, about 1855; d. Bandon, County Cork, 24 Jan, 1897. She was the daughter of a vicar choral of Cork Cathedral and the death of her first husband, Edward Argles, left her with a young family to support, whereupon she took to writing novels, using the pseudonym &ldquo;.&rdquo; Later she was married to T. H. Hungerford. Her more than 30 novels were widely popular both in America and England and without possessing a large amount of literary value are cleverly written, entertaining fictions. Among them may he cited &lsquo;Phyllis&rsquo; (1877); &lsquo;Molly Bawn&rsquo; (1878); &lsquo;Airy Fairy Lillian&rsquo; (1879); &lsquo;Beauty's Daughters&rsquo; (1880); &lsquo;Mrs. Geoffrey&rsquo; (1881); &lsquo;Portia&rsquo; (1882); &lsquo;O Tender Dolores&rsquo; (1885); &lsquo;Green Pastures and Gray Grief&rsquo; (1886); &lsquo;A Modern Circe&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;The Duchess&rsquo; (1887); &lsquo;Undercurrents&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Hon. Mrs. Vereker&rsquo;

(1888). Consult Taisin, A., &lsquo;Best Sellers of Yesterday&rsquo; (in Bookman, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 645, New York 1914).