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Margaret Williamson King (1861-1949) was a Scottish author born in Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire Scotland. She used various pen names, including Veronica King and Madge King, and with her husband, William A. Rivers.
"Veronica King"
''At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1839-1901''. and both of them wrote books about their experiences in China.Tim Chamberlain
"Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949"
''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China'' 75(1)(2013): 55-76.
"China and Tibet – Through Western Eyes"
''Waymarks'' (August 18, 2013). A blogpost about three generations of the Williamson/King family in China and Tibet, illustrated with many photographs * Jacqueline Young, "Western Residents of China and Their Fictional Writings, 1890-1914" (Doctoral diss., University of Glasgow, 2011). * Steven Ralph Hardy, "Expatriate Writers, Expatriate Readers: English-language Fiction Published Along the China Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (Doctoral diss., University of Minnesota, 2003). Includes a chapter of Veronica and Paul King's ''Anglo-Chinese Sketches''. {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Margaret Williamson 1861 births 1949 deaths 19th-century Scottish writers 20th-century Scottish writers 19th-century Scottish women writers 20th-century Scottish women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers
Margaret Williamson King (1861-1949) was a Scottish author born in Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire Scotland. She used various pen names, including Veronica King and Madge King, and with her husband, William A. Rivers.
Early life
Margaret Alice Houston Williamson was born in Scotland, the daughter of Protestant Christian missionaries Alexander Williamson and Isabelle Dougall Williamson. Her parents were from Scotland,Troy J. Bassett"Veronica King"
''At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1839-1901''. and both of them wrote books about their experiences in China.Tim Chamberlain
"Books of Change: A Western Family's Writings on China, 1855-1949"
''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China'' 75(1)(2013): 55-76.
Career
Books by King included two novels, ''Cousin Cinderella'' (1892) and ''Lord Goltho: An Apostle of Whiteness'' (1893). Books co-written with her husband appeared under the joint pen name "William A. Rivers", or crediting "Veronica and Paul King", and included ''Anglo-Chinese Sketches'' (1903), ''Eurasia: A Tale of Shanghai Life'' (1907), ''The Chartered Junk: A Tale of the Yangtze Valley'' (1910), ''Theodora's Stolen Family'' (1928), ''The Commissioner’s Dilemma: An International Tale of the China of Yesterday'' (1929) and ''Looking Inwards'' (1931). She also published one of her father's journals with one of her own, as ''Voyaging to China in 1855 and 1904: A Contrast in Travel'' (1936). Madge King also wrote articles about China for British publications. The Kings wrote about their travels in the United States in two critical volumes, ''The Raven on the Skyscraper: A Study of Modern American Portents'' (1925) and ''Under the Eagle's Feathers'' (1926).Personal life
Margaret Williamson (known to her family as 'Veronica') married Paul Henry King (1853-1938), a Commissioner in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, at Shanghai's Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1881. They had five sons, Duncan, Paul, Wilfrid, Louis, and Patrick, and two daughters, Dulcie and Carol. Their fourth sonLouis Magrath King
Louis Magrath King (1886–1949), born at Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. King was appointed as a British Consul at Dartsedo (Kangding, Sichuan, China) in 1913, which was then a trading town on the border between the Chinese Empire and Tibet. King was ...
(1886-1949) married a Tibetan woman, Rinchen Lhamo
Rinchen Lhamo (18 August 1901 – 13 November 1929), also written as Rin-chen Lha-mo, was a Tibetan writer. Her book, ''We Tibetans'', was published in English in 1926 by Seeley Service & Co.
Early life
Rinchen Lhamo was born into a respected fami ...
, and they continued the family tradition of writing about China and Tibet.Rinchen Lhamo, '' We Tibetans'' (London: Seeley, Service Co. 1926). Margaret Williamson King died in England in 1949, aged 88 years.
References
Further reading
* Tim Chamberlain"China and Tibet – Through Western Eyes"
''Waymarks'' (August 18, 2013). A blogpost about three generations of the Williamson/King family in China and Tibet, illustrated with many photographs * Jacqueline Young, "Western Residents of China and Their Fictional Writings, 1890-1914" (Doctoral diss., University of Glasgow, 2011). * Steven Ralph Hardy, "Expatriate Writers, Expatriate Readers: English-language Fiction Published Along the China Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (Doctoral diss., University of Minnesota, 2003). Includes a chapter of Veronica and Paul King's ''Anglo-Chinese Sketches''. {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Margaret Williamson 1861 births 1949 deaths 19th-century Scottish writers 20th-century Scottish writers 19th-century Scottish women writers 20th-century Scottish women writers Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers