Margaret Sandbach

Their paternal grandfather was the historian William Roscoe and her family were prominent members of Unitarian society in Liverpool.

He was then living at Hafodunos,[1] an estate in Denbighshire, North Wales, that had been bought two years previously by his father, the slave-owner, merchant and Mayor of Liverpool, Samuel Sandbach.

Gibson was the dedicatee of a later collection, Aurora and Other Poems, that was published in 1850, and in 1851 she commenced writing his autobiography, based on his dictation, while he was staying as a guest at Hafodunos.

[1] Her novel Spiritual Alchemy, published in 1851, caused Elizabeth Gaskell to comment in a review on "the folly exhibited by many an author of a moderately successful novel who hurries forward the second on the reputation of the first".

Baker and Dewi Gregory also co-authored a book based on her life, published in 2013 as Margaret Sandbach: A Tragedy in Marble and Ink.