author
Margaret D'Este
1876–1930
A British travel writer with a sharp eye for landscape and everyday life, she turned early-1900s journeys into vivid books shaped by observation and photography. Her best-known works invite readers into places like Majorca, Corsica, and the Canary Islands through a traveler’s curious, personal lens.
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With a camera in Majorca
by Margaret D'Este
About the author
Born in 1876, Margaret D'Este wrote travel books in the early 20th century and is best known for With a Camera in Majorca. Project Gutenberg also lists her as the author of Through Corsica with a Camera and In the Canaries with a Camera, showing a clear pattern in her work: travel writing closely tied to photography.
A Mallorca cultural history source identifies her as Margaret Moss King, a British traveler and writer who visited the Balearic Islands in 1906. The same source says she was the daughter of Elizabeth Augusta Egerton, described there as a pioneering photographer, which helps explain the visual, on-the-ground quality suggested by the titles of her books.
Margaret D'Este died in 1930. Although reliable biographical information about her is limited online, the surviving books make her easy to remember: she wrote for readers who liked places to feel real, seen not just as destinations but as lived-in landscapes.