Margaret Louisa Woods

Margaret Louisa Woods

Margaret Louisa Woods (née Bradley; 20 November 1855 – 1 December 1945) was an English writer, known for novels and for her lyrical and socially conscious poetry.

Quotes

  • Soft speech Provençal under the olives!
    Like a queen’s raiment from days long perish’d,
    Breathing aromas of old unremember’d
    Perfumes and shining in dust-cover’d places
    With sudden hints of forgotten splendour—
    So on the lips of the peasant his language,
    His only now, the tongue of the peasant.
    • "March Thoughts from England", st. 7, in Wild Justice (1896), p. 26; originally published as "Spring Thoughts from England" in The English Illustrated Magazine, vol. xv (April–September 1896), p. 153
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