The daughter of Edward Hill, she married the elder Robert Southey in 1772; after the death of her husband in 1792 she operated a boarding house in Bath.

REFERENCES TO Margaret Southey [née Hill]:

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 2 August 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 4 April 1798 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 12 July 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 April 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 3 August 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 4 February 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: My Mother,” [1820] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: Childhood Acquaintances,” 1 August 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: At Bedminster,” July 1822 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: Miss Tyler,” 17 July 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)