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Margaret Peterson
1883–1933
Born in Bombay and later based in London, this English novelist wrote popular fiction that ranged from social drama to adventure and sometimes published under the name Glint Green. Her work found a wide readership in the 1910s and 1920s, beginning with an award-winning debut.
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To Love
by Margaret Peterson
About the author
Raised in Bombay (now Mumbai), she was the youngest child of the Sanskrit scholar Peter Peterson and Agnes Christall Peterson. She moved to London in 1910 and soon began building a literary career, winning the 250-guinea Melrose prize for her first novel, The Lure of the Little Drum, in 1913.
She went on to publish many novels and also wrote under the pseudonym Glint Green. Her books included romance, social fiction, and adventure, and some of her stories drew on places and experiences connected with India and East Africa.
Margaret Peterson died in 1933 at Rudgwick in Sussex. Though not widely remembered today, she was a successful popular novelist of her time, with a body of work that still offers a glimpse of early 20th-century popular fiction.