Her father sold the reversion of the Langford advowson to Corpus Christi College, Oxford before he died in 1732.
[2] Collier had nowhere to live, but she was given a home by Henry Fielding who let her become a companion to his daughter and then his second wife, Mary Daniel.
She went with Henry Fielding's party when he went to Lisbon to find a cure for his maladies in 1754 on the Queen of Portugal.
[3] It was said that Margaret had a talent for catching a likeness of someone and she had cut a silhouette of Fielding[2] that was later used as was a basis for William Hogarth's "Taunton" portrait of him.
[6] Collier gained a reputation as a fan of Richardson[2] after she wrote letters to him telling him of her exploits.