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1856–1945
Known for both fiction and verse, this English writer brought lyrical style and a strong social conscience to her work. Her books and poems moved through Victorian and early 20th-century literary life with unusual range.

by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods
Margaret Louisa Woods was an English writer remembered for novels as well as poetry. Sources consistently describe her as a poet and novelist, and note that she was born Margaret Louisa Bradley before marrying Henry George Woods.
She was connected to a notably literary and scholarly world: her father was George Granville Bradley, and later reference sources link her to Oxford through her husband's academic career. Her writing reputation rests especially on her lyrical poetry and socially minded themes, alongside a substantial body of fiction.
Although she is less widely read now than some of her contemporaries, Woods appears in literary reference works as a serious late-Victorian and early-20th-century author whose work crossed genres with ease.