Mrs. C. M. Livingston

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Mrs. C. M. Livingston

A 19th-century writer of stories for children and families, she published under the name Mrs. C. M. Livingston and was part of a notably literary family. Her work includes titles like The Story of Puff, Profiles, and Divers Women, remembered for their warm, readable style.

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Divers Women

Divers Women

by Mrs. C. M. Livingston, Pansy

About the author

Published as Mrs. C. M. Livingston, Marcia Macdonald Livingston wrote fiction and stories for young readers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Modern catalog and family-history sources connect the pen name with Marcia Macdonald Livingston, and her books continue to circulate through public-domain libraries.

She is especially associated with gentle, family-centered writing. Among the works reliably listed under her name are The Story of Puff, Profiles, and Divers Women. The surviving record available online is fairly brief, but it shows a productive author whose books were widely enough read to remain preserved and republished in digital collections.

Livingston was also part of the family surrounding novelist Grace Livingston Hill; a modern Grace Livingston Hill reference site identifies Mrs. C. M. Livingston as Grace's mother and notes Marcia Macdonald Livingston by name. That connection helps place her within a broader tradition of popular Christian and domestic fiction that reached many readers of the period.