Margaret Fraser Barbour (March 24, 1823 – February 5, 1892) was a Scottish religious children's writer and poet.
Margaret Fraser Sandeman was born on March 24, 1823 in Perth, Scotland, the daughter of Glas Sandeman, a descendant of the Sandeman family who promoted the Glasites, and Margaret Fraser Stewart Sandeman, a Protestant religious poet. She married George Freeland Barbour of Bonskeid and Gryffe Castle in 1845 and they had five children, including gynecologist A. H. Freeland Barbour.
Sandeman wrote a number of religiously-oriented works for children, such as The Way Home (1856) and its sequel, The Irish Orphan in a Scottish Home (1857), which Rolf Loeber described as "a Protestant religious tract in story form." Her The Soul-Gatherer is a mix of religious poetry and prose. She also wrote a memoir of her mother A Memoir of Mrs. Stewart Sandeman by her Daughter (1883).
Margaret Fraser Barbour died on 5 February 1892 in Edinburgh.
Bibliography
The Way Home: A Religious Manual for the Young. 1 vol. Edinburgh: John Greig and Son, 1856. The Child of the Kingdom, J. Nisbet & Co., London, 1862. The Soul-Gatherer. 1 vol. London: James Nisbet, 1864. The Irish Orphan in a Scottish Home. 1 vol. Edinburgh: Nelson and Sons, 1866. Three Burdens Laid Down, Morgan & Scott, London, 1874. The Bottles Broken, and How the Mischief was Remedied. London, 1875. A Memoir of Mrs Stewart Sandeman by her Daughter, J. Nisbet & Co., London, 1883
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