Margery

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Definition of Margery in English English dictionary

A female given name, from a medieval vernacular form of Margaret

Margery is her name, sounds like sweet butter on Kansas corn.

from a medieval vernacular form of Margaret

{i} female first name (form of Margaret)

Related Terms

Margery Allingham

born May 20, 1904, London, Eng. died June 30, 1966, Colchester, Essex British detective-story writer. She published her first story at age 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The China Governess (1962), with their intellectual style and psychological insight, helped win detective fiction consideration as a serious literary genre. The BBC produced adaptations of eight of her novels in the late 1980s

Margery Kempe

born 1373 died 1440 English mystic. She had 14 children before beginning a series of pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, Germany, and Spain in 1414. Apparently illiterate, she dictated her autobiography, Book of Margery Kempe, describing her travels and her religious ecstasies in an unaffected style ( 1432-36). It is one of the earliest autobiographies in English literature

Margery Louise Allingham

born May 20, 1904, London, Eng. died June 30, 1966, Colchester, Essex British detective-story writer. She published her first story at age 8, her first novel at 19, and her first detective story in her early 20s. Her stories about the fictional detective Albert Campion became very popular, and such novels as Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The China Governess (1962), with their intellectual style and psychological insight, helped win detective fiction consideration as a serious literary genre. The BBC produced adaptations of eight of her novels in the late 1980s

Hyphenation

Mar·ge·ry

Turkish pronunciation

märcıri

Pronunciation

/ˈmärʤərē/ /ˈmɑːrʤɜriː/