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Margaret Waters
Known today mainly for adapting classic stories for younger readers, this little-documented writer is associated with early-20th-century editions of beloved children's books. Her name appears on versions of works like The Little Lame Prince and A Christmas Carol that were reshaped to be more accessible for young audiences.
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The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters
by Margaret Waters, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
About the author
Very little biographical information about Margaret Waters could be confirmed from reliable sources available online, but her name is closely linked with children's adaptations published in the early 1900s. Library and public-domain records credit her with rewriting The Little Lame Prince for young readers, based on the original work by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
Her role seems to have been that of an adapter rather than the original creator of the stories. Booksellers, library catalogs, and Project Gutenberg records also connect her name with editions of A Christmas Carol and other child-friendly retellings, suggesting a focus on making well-known literature easier for younger readers to enjoy.
Because so little firmly sourced personal information is available, the most reliable picture of Margaret Waters is through her work: a practical, reader-focused contributor to children's publishing whose adaptations helped introduce classic stories to new generations.