Margaret Ann Courtney (16 April 1834 – 12 May 1920) was a Cornish[1][2][3] poet and folklorist based in Penzance, Cornwall.
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.
[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.