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Margaret Dashiell
Margaret May Dashiell (January 7, 1867 – ) was an American artist and writer whose works depicted contemporary life in Richmond, Virginia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina. Margaret May Dashiell was born to Thomas P. May and Mary Taylor May in Louisiana on January 7, 1867, where her family owned a plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, Saint John the Baptist Parish. Thomas P. May was a planter, novelist, and editor of the ''New Orleans Times''. She grew up in New Orleans and was educated at St. Simeon's Select School for Girls and Young Ladies, run by the Catholic Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Daughters of Charity. After a downturn in family fortunes, they moved to England in the 1880s, where Thomas May died. In 1886, Dashiell's mother moved the family to Richmond. In 1889, Dashiell married merchant John Parker Dashiell. They had one child, a son named Searing T. Dashiell. In Richmond, Dashiell studied art with Edwar ...
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Richmond, Virginia
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