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Marguerite Merington
1857–1951
A playwright, librettist, and biographer with a flair for popular storytelling, this English-born American writer moved easily between the stage and the page. Her work ranged from hit 1890s drama to books on figures like George Armstrong Custer and Edwin Booth.
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Scarlett of the Mounted
by Marguerite Merington
About the author
Born in England in 1857 and raised in New York, Marguerite Merington began her professional life in academia, teaching Greek and Latin at the Normal College in New York before turning fully to writing. That classical background gave her work a strong literary foundation, but she wrote for broad audiences in a lively, approachable way.
She became known in the 1890s as a successful playwright and librettist, especially for Captain Lettarblair (1892). Over time, she built a wide-ranging career that included short stories, essays, dramatic works, and biography, showing an unusual ability to shift between popular entertainment and more historical or literary subjects.
Merington also wrote books about well-known cultural and historical figures, including Edwin Booth and George Armstrong Custer. She died in New York on May 20, 1951, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both theatrical energy and a lasting interest in American public life.