Never met the lady. She must have been something though. Someone named not one but two flies after her. What little I know of Meg comes from the names of those two flies ---Meg with the Muckle Mouth, and Meg in Her Braws. She must have talked a lot but was a natty dresser.

My dictionary says muckle is a variation of mickle, which is of Scottish derivation and means "great." Braw, also Scottish, means "fine" or "splendid." There you have it: Meg with the great mouth (which could have meant she was a great kisser but I do not want to go into that), and Meg in her finery.

For those who do not have access to the ingredients, these were taken from the Handbook of Angling by Ephemera.

Wings - from the tail of a brown turkey
Head - crimson wool
Body - yellow silk
End of body - crimson wool
Tail - yellow or orange wool
Round the tail - red cock's hackle
Round the body - gold twist, and over it hackle mixed with the colour as above

Wings - light brown from the wing of a bittern
Head - yellow wool
Next the head - mottled blue feather from a jay's wing
Body - brown wool mixed with bullock's hair
Towards the end of the body - green wool, and next to that crimson wool
Tail - yellow wool
Round the body - gold twist, over that large furnace hackle

Old, and therefore drab, for salmon flies. I have this picture of Meg in my mind. She is neither old nor drab