Margrieta Beer

Margrieta Beer (1871–1951) was a British writer whose best-known book is Schopenhauer, first published in 1914. The title was later preserved through Project Gutenberg and library collections, which helps keep her work available to modern readers.

A memoir published after her death points to a wider range of interests than philosophy alone. Library records note that it includes two of her papers, Apprenticeship and skilled employment and Sick insurance for women, suggesting that she wrote not only about major thinkers but also about women’s labor and social welfare.

Only a small amount of biographical detail is easy to confirm from readily available sources, so much of her life remains in the background. Even so, the record that survives presents her as an intelligent, purposeful author who moved comfortably between philosophical writing and questions of everyday social reform.