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Margaret Dixon McDougall (December 26, 1828 – October 22, 1899) was an Irish-born writer who lived in Canada and the United States. Her surname also appears asMacDougall. She sometimes wrote under the nameNorah Pembroke.[1]
The daughter of William Henry Dixon and Eleanor West, she was bornMargaret Moran Dixon inBelfast and came to Canada with her family while she was in her twenties. She married Alexander Dougald McDougal in 1852; the couple had six children. During the 1860s and 1870s, they lived inPembroke andClarence. McDougall published a book of poetryVerses and Rhymes by the Way in 1880. She wrote for various newspapers and then returned toNorthern Ireland as a correspondent for theMontreal Witness and theNew York Witness during the early 1880s. In 1882, she publishedThe Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland, based on material published in her columns. In 1883, she published a novelDays of a Life set in Ireland. After her husband died in 1887, she became active in theAmerican Baptist Home Mission Society inMichigan.[1][2]
In 1893, McDougall moved toMontesano, Washington where she worked for the church. She died inSeattle in 1899.[1]
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