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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Irish novelist who wrote as “The Duchess”, 1855–1897. 1 explained quote.

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Traditional proverb · 1878
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Traditional proverb · Molly Bawn (novel), where a character quotes it as a saying · 1878 · Writer

Whether something is beautiful depends on the person looking at it. There is no single standard everyone shares.

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About Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford was an Irish writer of popular romantic novels, published under the pen name “The Duchess.” Her best-known book, Molly Bawn (1878), was a bestseller in Britain and America. She wrote more than thirty novels before her death from typhoid in 1897.