Margaret Agnes Paul (18 July 1829 – 30 March 1905)[1] was a Scottish novelist.

Margaret Agnes Colvile was born on 18 July 1829, one of sixteen children of Andrew Colvile, a governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Mary Louisa Eden, daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.

Her siblings included James William Colvile, a judge in colonial India; Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land and the Hudson's Bay Company; Isabella Colville, mother of football pioneer Francis Marindin; and Georgiana Mary, Baroness Blatchford.

[2] In 1856, she married clergyman and religious author Charles Kegan Paul.

She was the author of a dozen anonymously published romances.