Dowling, Margaret C. (fl. 1930-1949), publisher and literary scholar

Margaret Dowling was an employee of the publishing firm Sidgwick & Jackson and later one of its directors. Her published writings include the following articles:

‘Further Notes on William Trevell’, Review of English Studies, vol. vi (1930), pp. 443–6

‘Sir John Hayward’s Troubles over his Life of Henry IV’, The Library, 4th series, vol. xi (1930), pp. 212–24

‘The Printing of John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres’, The Library, 4th series, vol. xii (1932), pp. 365–80

‘Public Record Office Research: The Equity Side of Chancery, 1558–1714’, Review of English Studies, vol. viii (1932), pp. 185–200

‘A Note on Moll Cutpurse—“The Roaring Girl”’, Review of English Studies, vol. x (1937), pp. 67–71

as well as a letter to The Library headed ‘Nathaniel Ponder’ (4th series, vol. xvii (1936), pp. 109–10), short reviews in the Review of English Studies (vol. xvi (1940), pp. 248–9), and, for the same journal, the summary of periodical literature from July 1938 to January 1939 (she may also have prepared those for the two preceding quarters, but they are unsigned).

In the Writers’ and Artists’ Year Book for 1949 she is listed, under the name M. C. Dowling, as one of the directors of Sidgwick & Jackson, and, as Margaret Dowling, as one of the directors of Feature Books, operating at the same address.

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