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Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and for a brief time was second in line to the British throne. Her uncle King Edward VIII abdicated the throne when Margaret was six,…

Margaret Mitchell

Name at birth: Margaret Munnerlyn MitchellMargaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her first and only novel, Gone With the Wind. The best-selling Civil War romance was published in 1936 and…

Margaret Fuller

Name at birth: Sarah Margaret FullerMargaret Fuller was a New England intellectual and journalist whose 1845 book Woman in the Nineteenth Century was a key influence on American women suffragists of…

Margaret Atwood

A prolific writer and a hit with literary critics, Canada's Margaret Atwood became internationally famous after the popular and critical success of her 1984 novel, The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood began…

Margaret of Navarre

(Encyclopedia) Margaret of NavarreMargaret of Navarrenəvärˈ [key] or Margaret of AngoulêmeMargaret of AngoulêmeäNg&oomacr;lāmˈ [key], 1492–1549, queen consort of Navarre; sister of King Francis I…

Margaret Tudor

(Encyclopedia) Margaret Tudor, 1489–1541, queen consort of James IV of Scotland; daughter of Henry VII of England and sister of Henry VIII. Her marriage (1503) to James was accompanied by a treaty of…