Frances Margaret Milne

Frances Margaret Milne
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	June 30, 1846 North of Ireland
Died	April 1910 (aged 63) California, U.S.
Pen name	"Margaret Frances"
Occupation	writer, librarian
Language	English
Spouse	Mr. Milne

Frances Margaret Milne (pen name, Margaret Frances; June 30, 1846 – April 1910) was an Irish-born American author and librarian of the long nineteenth century. Her works included, For to-day : poems (1893); A cottage gray and other poems (1895); Heliotrope (1897); Our little roman. verses of childhood. (1902); and Passing of the village (1902). She died in 1910.

Frances Margaret Milne was born in the north of Ireland, June 30, 1846.^[1] In 1849, her parents came to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. In 1869, her family moved to California. She was educated mainly at home. From her 13th to her 16th year, she attended a public school. Her training was quite thorough, and her reading covered a wide range of authors.^[1]

Milne was married in California. She began to write, in both prose and verse, in early life, and her work attracted attention. She published poems in the San Francisco Star and many other prominent Pacific-coast journals. For some years, she made her home in San Luis Obispo, California, where she served as the librarian of the San Luis Obispo Free Public Library.^[2] In 1883, she became interested in the single-tax movement, and many of her songs were written in the interest of that movement. She made a profound study of economic and political questions, and with pen and voice, she aided in extending the discussion of the relations of progress and poverty, and of individuals and society. Subsequent to the publication of her earliest productions in the Cincinnati Christian Standard, she wrote and published much. In 1872, she issued a book, a story for young people. She wrote a number of poems, essays and sketches over the pen-name "Margaret Frances." In all her work on reform, she used her own name in full.^[1]

She died in California, April 1910.^[3]

• For to-day : poems (1893)
• A cottage gray and other poems (1895)
• Heliotrope (1897)
• Our little roman. verses of childhood. (1902)
• Passing of the village. (1902)

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: California State Library (1907). News Notes of California Libraries. Vol. 2 (Public domain ed.). California State Library.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Post, Louis Freeland; Post, Alice Thatcher; Cooley, Stoughton (1910). The Public (Public domain ed.). Louis F. Post.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 508.

• Works related to Woman of the Century/Frances M. Milne at Wikisource
• Works by or about Frances Margaret Milne at the Internet Archive
• For to-day, poems, by Frances Margaret Milne at Internet Archive
• Frances Margaret Milne's poetry at The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review