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Margaret E. Winslow
A 19th-century writer, editor, and reformer, she brought stories for young readers together with a deep commitment to the temperance movement. Her work sits at the meeting point of children's fiction, journalism, and social activism.
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Katie Robertson : A girls story of factory life
by Margaret E. Winslow
About the author
Born in New York City in 1836, Margaret E. Winslow spent much of her life in Brooklyn and Saugerties, New York. She was educated at the Packer Institute and later taught there, building a strong foundation as an educator before becoming better known as a writer and public voice in reform work.
Winslow wrote fiction for younger readers as well as books connected to temperance causes. She was also an editor of Our Union, the national paper of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and became closely identified with that movement's publishing and organizing efforts.
Remembered today as both an author and an activist, she represents a strand of 19th-century American writing in which storytelling, moral instruction, and social reform were closely linked. She died in 1936 after a long life that stretched across a period of major change in American public life.