author
Marguerite Merington
1857–1951
An English-born American writer who moved easily from short stories and essays to stage plays and librettos, she built a long literary career after first teaching Greek and Latin in New York. She was especially known in the theater world for Captain Lettarblair and for adapting well-loved stories for the stage.
3 Audiobooks
Scarlett of the Mounted
by Marguerite Merington
Festival plays : one-act pieces for New Year's day, St. Valentine's day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a child's birthday
by Marguerite Merington
Picture plays
by Marguerite Merington
About the author
Born in England in 1857 and raised in New York, Marguerite Merington began her professional life as a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Normal College in New York before turning fully to writing. Over time she became known as a versatile author of short stories, essays, biographies, dramatic works, and librettos.
Her best-known success was the play Captain Lettarblair, and she also wrote Love Finds the Way and a number of stage adaptations drawn from familiar literary works such as Cranford and The Vicar of Wakefield. That range shows the kind of writer she was: comfortable moving between original drama, adaptation, and literary retelling.
Merington continued writing for decades, and her surviving papers show interests that stretched beyond the theater, including work connected to George and Elizabeth Custer. She died in New York on May 20, 1951, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both popular theater and a broad, bookish literary life.