Margaret Wrightson studied at the Royal College of Art under William Blake (1842–1921) and Edouard Lanteri (1848–1917). From 1906, she exhibited extensively with the RA, the SWA and the Walker Gallery in Liverpool.

Gaining prominence during the First World War, she received frequent commissions for statues of remembrance, such as the figure of St George on the memorial at Cramlington in Northumberland (1922).

Although perhaps constrained by the demands of the traditional iconography of her period, Wrightson produced a number of works created from a distinctly feminist view, such as Spirit of the Garden (1912) – a female nude with a bronze collar bearing the words ‘Spirit of the Garden, Peace, Hope, Love, Courage’ and her striking Mechanic, Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, 1917.

She was elected a fellow of the RBS in 1943 and was also a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

^{Biography from Liss Llewellyn}

Margaret Justina Wrightson [commonly known as Margaret J. Wrightson] was born in Norton, County Durham, England on 22 April 1877 and studied under William Blake Richmond and Edouard Lanteri at the Royal College of Art in London. She subsequently worked primarily as a sculptor and exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London from 1906 to 1961, and at the Society of Women Artists in London from 1915 to 1972. Her work was also shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

She was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) in 1920; an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARSBA) in 1929; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRSBA) in 1944. She was also a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

Among her commissions were a small statue for the war memorial at Cramlington, Northumberland in 1922; a statue of a Viking warrior for Doxford Hall in Doxford, Northumberland in 1925;and a memorial statue of a boy commemorating Charles Lamb for the gardens of the Inner Temple in the City of London in 1928.

During World War One, Wrightson served as a driver with the Women's Auxiliary Ambulance Corps in France.

Her address was given as Norton Hall, Stockton, Durham in 1881; "The Hall", The Green, Norton, Durham in 189; Neasham Hall, Darlington in 1906 and 1912; and 56A Bedford Gardens London in 1913 and 1976. She died in London on 6 June 1976.

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