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Margaret Harvey|1768|1858| Margaret Harvey (born 1768 died 1858), poetess, daughter of John Harvey, surgeon, of Sunderland, was born in 1768. The early years of her life were passed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where she published by subscription 'The Lay of the Minstrel's Daughter; a poem in six cantos', 1814, octavo. Her 'Monody on the Princess Charlotte' was published in 1818. About this time she moved to Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, where she assisted in keeping a ladies' school, and published 'Raymond de Percy, or the Tenant of the Tomb, a romantic melodrama' (Bishop Wearmouth, 1822). In the preface she invokes the spirit of Garrick. The piece was performed at Sunderland in April 1822. She wrote some other minor poems. She died at Bishop Wearmouth on 18 June 1858 (Gentlemen's Magazine. 1858, ii. 202). Miss Harvey's sister Jane was a painter of miniatures on ivory; Andrew Morton, the portrait-painter (1802–1845), was her pupil.

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