author
Marguerite Aspinwall
1888–1982
A novelist, journalist, and former fashion editor, she wrote lively stories for younger readers as well as books shaped by history and place. Her work ranges from school and island adventures to a Nantucket tale set in the clipper-ship days.
2 Audiobooks
The sea girl : A tale of Nantucket in the clipper ship days
by Marguerite Aspinwall
Gay's year on Sunset Island
by Marguerite Aspinwall
About the author
Born in 1888 and living until 1982, Marguerite Aspinwall was an American writer whose career seems to have moved across fiction, journalism, and magazine work. A LibriVox author note describes her as a novelist, journalist, and one-time fashion editor of Ladies' Home Journal.
Her books show an interesting mix of interests. Library and catalog records connect her with titles including Gay's Year on Sunset Island, The Sea Girl: A Tale of Nantucket in the Clipper Ship Days, The Caravan Girls, Counter Currents, Jataka Tales out of Old India, and Putnams' Book of Parties. Later, she also wrote A Hundred Years in His House, a history of the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia.
That range suggests a writer who was comfortable moving between fiction for young readers, retellings and adaptations, practical or social subjects, and local history. Even from the small surviving record online, her work has a clear sense of curiosity and variety.