M. G. C. (Mary Georgina Caroline) Hall

Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall, who also published as Mrs. Cecil Hall and M. G. C. Hall, was an English author. She is chiefly remembered for A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba, a book published in 1884 and presented as a series of letters originally written to her family.

The book grew out of a trip she made in 1882, when she went to Manitoba after her brother had settled there to farm in 1881. Accounts of the book describe her stay in Manitoba and a longer sojourn in Colorado before she returned to England, with Hall recording the demands of frontier life in a direct, practical, often engaging way.

Reliable biographical details about Hall herself are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember her through this memoir: an English visitor-turned-observer whose writing preserves everyday experiences of migration, farm work, and women's lives in the late 19th century.