Margaret Moyes Black

Scottish novelist and biographer

Writer
novelist
biographer
botanist

NationalityScottishGenreNon-fiction, novels, biography, botany

Margaret Moyes Black (pseudonym, M.B. Fife; 1853–1935) was a Scottish novelist and biographer. She was born on 27 April 1853 in the parish of Scoonie, Fife. Her father was William Black, a shipmaster, and her mother was Margaret Moyes Deas. She wrote her first novel, In Glenoran, under the pseudonym of M.B. Fife. Of the volume on Robert Louis Stevenson, in the Famous Scots Series, Black stated in her preface that it is, "only a reminiscence and an appreciation by one who, in the old days between 1869 and 1880, knew him and his home circle well."^[1] She was unmarried and died on 16 October 1935 at Montrose, Angus.^[a]

Selected works

In Glenoran. [A Novel.] Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1888 (pseudonym).
Tempted: An Episode. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1889.
Between the Ferries. A Story of Highland Life. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1890
Disinherited. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1891
A Woman and Pitiful. A Deeside Story. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1893
The Ghost of Gairn. A Tale of "The Forty-Five.". Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1894
The House of Cargill. A Tale of the Smuggling Days. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1895.
A Most Provoking Girl. A Tale of the East Coast, etc. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, [1896.]
Facts and Fancies about Flowers. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1897. Series: Science Talks to Young Thinkers
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, Aug 1898, ("Famous Scots Series")

Notes

^ Adapted from the births and deaths information available at the General Register Office for Scotland, Scotlands People Centre in Edinburgh, and also at http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk

References

^ Chapman 1898, p. 705.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Chapman, J. (1898). The Westminster Review. Vol. 150 (Public domain ed.). J. Chapman.

External links

Works by Margaret Moyes Black at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Margaret Moyes Black at Internet Archive
Births and deaths information available at the General Register Office for Scotland, Scotlands People Centre in Edinburgh, and also at http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk
British Library catalogue: http://www.bl.uk
http://openlibrary.org
http://worldcat.org