Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Margaret Murray Robertson was a Scottish-born Canadian teacher and novelist. Reliable reference sources describe her as having been born in Stuartfield, Scotland, in 1823, later moving with her family to Vermont and then to Sherbrooke, Quebec, after her mother's death.

She studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and went on to teach before turning more fully to writing. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography credits her with an essay on common school education and about 14 novels, while other major reference sources note that her fiction was especially associated with domestic, religious, and young readers' literature.

Robertson died unmarried in Montreal in 1897. Her books, including titles such as Christie Redfern's Troubles and Janet's Love and Service, helped make her a notable figure in 19th-century Canadian writing.