author
William Thomas Wilson
A little-known early 20th-century writer, he is remembered for a single historical romance that turns the mystery of the Lost Colony into an adventurous love story. His work blends Elizabethan atmosphere, colonial danger, and old-fashioned storytelling.
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For the Love of Lady Margaret: A Romance of the Lost Colony
by William Thomas Wilson
About the author
William Thomas Wilson is known for For the Love of Lady Margaret: A Romance of the Lost Colony, a novel published in 1908. The book revisits the Roanoke mystery through a mix of romance, adventure, and historical imagination, and it has survived into the digital age through libraries such as Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
Very little biographical information about Wilson appears to be widely available from the reliable sources found here. Because of that, the clearest picture comes from the work itself: he wrote in an early 20th-century historical style, using the Elizabethan world and the legend of the Lost Colony as the setting for a dramatic, emotionally driven tale.
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