Margaret Ann Courtney (16 April 1834 – 12 May 1920) was a Cornish[1][2][3] poet and folklorist based in Penzance, Cornwall.
Margaret Ann Courtney was born at Penzance in 1834, the eldest daughter of Sarah Mortimer Courtney and John Sampson Courtney.[3] Her mother was from Scilly; her father from Devon. One brother, John Mortimer Courtney, was a government official in Canada; another, Leonard Henry Courtney, was a British politician. Her younger sister Louise d'Este Courtney married Richard Oliver, a New Zealand politician from Cornwall.[citation needed]
M. A. Courtney is perhaps best known for her book Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore (1890), a detailed description of many of the traditions and folklore present in west Cornwall.[4] It has also appeared under the title Folklore and Legends of Cornwall.[5] Other titles by Courtney included Cornish Feasts and Feasten Times (1910)[6] and Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall (1880, co-authored with Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch).[7]
A poem by Margaret Ann Courtney was included in the 2000 collection Voices from West Barbary: an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549-1928.[8]
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