Margaret Symonds

Born in 1869, she was the daughter of the writer and critic John Addington Symonds. She collaborated with her father on Our Life in the Swiss Highlands and later published books including Days Spent on a Doge's Farm, A Child of the Alps, and Out of the Past. She also co-wrote The Story of Perugia with Lina Duff Gordon.

She is often referred to as Margaret Vaughan as well as Margaret Symonds. Sources located during this search identify her as the wife of schoolmaster William Wyamar Vaughan, whom she married in 1898, and as the mother of Janet Vaughan, who later became a noted physiologist.

Her last major book, Out of the Past (1925), drew on family history and remembered lives, which makes her work especially appealing to readers who enjoy literary memoir with a strong sense of place. A clear, confirmed portrait image was not found in the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included.