Margaret Elise Harkness was the second of five siblings. She grew up in a sheltered, religious, and conservative upper class household that was sheltered and religious. Her father was an Angelican priest of Irish origin while her mother was distantly related to English aristocracy. Indeed this was where Harkness originated from and she would travel a long road in order to become a writer.

Harkness, Margaret. A City Girl, edited Tabitha Sparks. Broadview editions 1887.

Sypher, Eileen. "Margaret Harkness." Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: Second Series, edited by George M. Johnson, Gale, 1999. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 197. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1200008204/LitRC?u=sand82993&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=4749c12d. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.

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