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(Agnes Marian) A. M. Haggard
1860–1960
A quietly prolific English novelist and biographer, she wrote fiction as well as a warm, thoughtful study of her sister, the writer Michael Fairless. Her long life also linked her to the Haggard literary circle through family and work.
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Michael Fairless : her life and writings
by William Scott Palmer, (Agnes Marian) A. M. Haggard
About the author
Born Agnes Marion Barber in Yorkshire in 1860, she later married John George Haggard in 1886. Reliable reference sources identify her as an English author who published a number of novels, including The Secret of Saint Florel and A Philosopher’s Romance.
She is also remembered for her connection to other literary figures. Reference accounts note that her younger sister was the writer Margaret Fairless Barber, better known as Michael Fairless, and that Agnes later co-wrote Michael Fairless: Her Life and Writings. The same sources say she was a childhood friend of the family of H. Rider Haggard and at one point served as his secretary.
Archival and bibliographic records place her life from 1860 to 1960, giving her an unusually long span across late Victorian, Edwardian, and modern literary history. Even where detailed biographical information is scarce, the surviving records show a writer with close ties to a notable English literary family and circle.