author
Margaret Pedler
d. 1948
A bestselling British writer of romantic fiction, she moved from music into novels that reached a wide popular audience in the early 20th century. Her stories blend emotion, suspense, and the kind of dramatic turns that made her a favorite with many magazine and library readers.
6 Audiobooks
The Splendid Folly
by Margaret Pedler
The Vision of Desire
by Margaret Pedler
The Hermit of Far End
by Margaret Pedler
The House of Dreams-Come-True
by Margaret Pedler
The Moon out of Reach
by Margaret Pedler
The Lamp of Fate
by Margaret Pedler
About the author
Before becoming known for her novels, she studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music and also published songs with words and music of her own. That musical background came before a long fiction career that made her a familiar name to readers of popular romance.
She was a British novelist, born in 1877 and died on December 28, 1948. From the late 1910s through the 1940s, she published a substantial run of novels, often centered on love, secrets, and difficult choices, and was widely read in her day.
Readers who enjoy early 20th-century romantic fiction may find her work especially appealing for its mix of feeling, mystery, and old-fashioned drama. Though not as widely discussed now as some of her contemporaries, her books still offer a clear window into the style of popular fiction that once made her a bestseller.