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Margaret Penrose
Best known as the pen name behind early 20th-century girls’ series like Dorothy Dale and The Motor Girls, this name is tied to the fast-paced, adventurous fiction of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The books helped shape a generation of popular series reading for young girls.
29 Audiobooks
Dorothy Dale - A Girl of Today
by Margaret Penrose
The campfire girls of Roselawn : or, A strange message from the air
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days
by Margaret Penrose
The Campfire Girls on Station Island; Or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale to the rescue
by Margaret Penrose
The radio girls of Roselawn : or, A strange message from the air
by Margaret Penrose
The Radio Girls on the program : or, Singing and reciting at the sending station
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale in the City
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls in the Mountains; or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise; Or, The Cave in the Mountains
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Great Secret
by Margaret Penrose
The Radio Girls on Station Island: The wireless from the steam yacht
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's engagement
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School
by Margaret Penrose
The Radio Girls at Forest Lodge; or, The Strange Hut in the Swamp
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls on a Tour
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay; or, The Secret of the Red Oar
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls Through New England; or, Held by the Gypsies
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls on the Coast; or, The Waif From the Sea
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach; Or, In Quest of the Runaways
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale and Her Chums
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls on Waters Blue; Or, the Strange Cruise of the Tartar
by Margaret Penrose
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's School Rivals
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale in the West
by Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Promise
by Margaret Penrose
About the author
Margaret Penrose was a pseudonym used for girls’ series fiction published in the early 1900s. The name is associated with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the book-packaging company that created many popular juvenile series in the United States.
Books credited to Margaret Penrose include entries in the Dorothy Dale series and The Motor Girls series. These stories mixed school life, friendship, travel, and adventure, and were part of the wave of affordable series books that became hugely popular with young readers in the first decades of the 20th century.
Because Margaret Penrose was a house name rather than a single, publicly identified author, biographical details about a real person behind the name are limited. What stands out instead is the lasting place of the name in children’s publishing history and in the rise of series fiction for girls.