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Margaret Ellen James
A Welsh writer remembered for bringing the dramatic 1797 French landing at Fishguard to life, she wrote with a strong sense of place and history. Her surviving public record is slim, but her best-known work has stayed in circulation through modern reprints and Project Gutenberg.
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The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797
by Margaret Ellen James
About the author
Margaret Ellen James is credited as the author of The Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797, a work now available through Project Gutenberg and other public-domain libraries. The available records found for her are sparse, but Wikidata identifies her as a Welsh writer and historian, born in 1843.
Her best-known book revisits the attempted French landing at Fishguard in Pembrokeshire, one of the most unusual invasion episodes in British history. The book's continued availability suggests lasting interest in her historical storytelling and in the local Welsh past she chose to preserve.
Because reliable biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to remember her through the work itself: a writer associated with Welsh history, and especially with the story of Fishguard in 1797.