Margaret Iris Duley (1894 - 1968)

Born 27 Sep 1894 in St. John's, Newfoundland

Ancestors

Died 22 Mar 1968 at age 73 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Biography

Margaret Iris Duley was arguably Newfoundland's first novelist of either sex, and certainly the first to gain an international audience.

She published four novels:

1. The Eyes of the Gull (1936)
2. Cold Pastoral (1939)
3. Highway to Valour (1941)
4. Novelty on Earth (1942)^[1]

The novels describe life in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. Margaret's main characters are often outport women, who are set apart or restive in their surroundings, and her writing reflects a feminist sensibility.

Born in 1894 in pre-Confederation Newfoundland, she was the daughter of Thomas Duley and Tryphena Soper.^[2]

Margaret never married. She died in 1968 and was buried at General Protestant Cemetery, St. John's.^[3]

She was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1976.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia
2. ↑ "Canada, Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQF-9HTF : 2 March 2021), Margaret Iris Duley, 1894.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204405988/margaret-iris-duley : accessed 9 February 2022), memorial page for Margaret Iris Duley (27 Sep 1894–22 Mar 1968), Find A Grave: Memorial #204405988, citing General Protestant Cemetery, St. John's, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ; Maintained by K. Fifield (contributor 49486374) .
4. ↑ Parks Canada, Designations of National Historic Significance

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