Author talk:Margaret Davesiès de Pontès

Life

• Born Margaret Phillips, daughter of Alfred Phillips, a Merchant(?), who had died by 1852
  • It is possible that she was the Margaret Phillips, born around 1820, daughter of Alfred Phillips, and eldest sister of Adolphus Phillips and Clara Phillips. This Alfred Phillips died some time between 1835 (when he made his will), and 1841 (when Margaret was 21 years old, and first applied to receive her full share of the inheritance). [1][2]
• On 11 November 1852, she married Charles Jules Lucien Davesiès de Pontès at St Marylebone, London
• A French record of their marriage was recorded in Paris on 28 June 1858 (perhaps marriages from other countries weren't acknowledged in France at that time?)
• Lucien died on 28 December 1859
• Margaret outlived him by several years, until at least 1866, when her translation of his Social Reform in England was published, credited to "the widow of the author"

--Yodin^T 23:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Egmont

The title page of Poets and Poetry of Germany (1858) calls her the "Translator of “Egmont,” “The Niebelungen Treasure,” “Körner’s Life and Works.”

The Niebelungen Treasure (1847) and A Selection from the Poems and Dramatic Works of Theodor Körner (1850) are both published by Williams and Norgate, which could explain why the title page of the latter says: "By the translator of the “Nibelungen-Treasure.”" (i.e. perhaps the publisher either didn't know about Egmont (1848), which was published by Saunders and Otley, or didn't want to advertise the work of another publisher).

The translator's Preface to Egmont (1848) is dated "Frankfort-a-Main, June 1848": if any letters, journals, diaries, etc. could confirm Margaret (Phillips at that time) was there then, it would make it much more certain that this is the edition of Egmont that she translated. --Yodin^T 23:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)