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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Margaret Butlin

Author: Margaret Butlin (1842–1926)

Alternate Name(s): Punnett (maiden name)

Biography: Margaret Butlin was born in 1842 in St. Erth, Cornwall, the daughter of clergyman John Punnett. As a young woman, she wrote the anonymous novel Helen's Trouble (1869). In 1869, she married clergyman James Thomas Butlin, the vicar of St. Lawrence Aston near Birmingham. The couple had several children. When her husband retired, they moved to Dawlish. She died there in 1926.

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References: Bibliotheca Cornubiensis; British Census (1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Helen's Trouble.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1869.

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