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Margaret Roberts (née Wade; d. September 26, 1813) was an English writer active in the early nineteenth century.

Life
The daughter of a clergyman, Margaret Wade spent her youth in Boxford, a small village in the county of Suffolk. On July 27, 1793 she married the Reverend Richard Roberts, the son of William Hayward Roberts, Provost of Eton (1781-1791). Richard and Margaret led a prestigious school for boys and young men in Mitcham, in the county of Surry. Their students included Edward Bouverie Pusey and several children of the nobility: "Auckland, Exeter, Darby, Carlisle . . . ". She died before finishing her final work, Duty, which was subsequently edited by Amelia Opie. Opie preceded the novel with an account of Roberts's life, which also appeared in The Analectic Magazine.

Works
The Telescope, or Moral Views, Sold by Harvey and Darton. Printed for the Author, London, 1804.

Rose and Emily; or, Sketches of Youth. 1812. Reprinted. New York: Eastburn, Kirk, & Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, & Brown, 1815.

Duty, A Novel, By the Late Mrs. Roberts. London: Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, & Brown, 1814.