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Best known for Margaret Tudor: A Romance of Old St. Augustine, this early-20th-century writer turned a slice of colonial Florida history into an atmospheric historical novel. Her work has remained in circulation through Project Gutenberg, where modern readers can still discover it.
by Annie T. Colcock
Annie T. Colcock, identified by Project Gutenberg as Annie Toomer Colcock, was an American author remembered for Margaret Tudor: A Romance of Old St. Augustine, published in 1901. The novel draws on an episode from early colonial history and reflects a strong interest in the past of St. Augustine and the wider Southeast.
Available records suggest she was born October 6, 1871, and died August 3, 1923. Beyond that, detailed biographical information appears to be limited in the sources readily available online, so much of her reputation today rests on her surviving novel.
What makes Colcock interesting now is the way her fiction preserves a regional historical imagination: romance, danger, and old Florida settings all come together in a book that still finds readers more than a century later. For listeners who enjoy rediscovered historical fiction, she offers a small but distinctive voice from her era.