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Mrs. C. M. Livingston
1832–1924
A writer of children’s stories, holiday drama, and Christian fiction, she helped shape a remarkable family literary tradition. Writing as Mrs. C. M. Livingston, she also collaborated with her sister Isabella “Pansy” Macdonald Alden and raised novelist Grace Livingston Hill.
4 Audiobooks
Divers Women
by Pansy, Mrs. C. M. Livingston
The story of Puff
by Mrs. C. M. Livingston
Profiles
by Pansy, Mrs. C. M. Livingston
Katy Hunter's homes
by Mrs. C. M. Livingston
About the author
Marcia Macdonald Livingston (1832–1924) was born in Johnstown, New York, to Isaac Macdonald and Myra Spafford. In 1855, she married Presbyterian minister Rev. Charles Montgomery Livingston, and together they served congregations in several communities. Their daughter was the novelist Grace Livingston Hill.
Writing under the name Mrs. C. M. Livingston, she published children’s books, a Christmas play, and story collections including The Story of Puff and Susan’s Sheaves and Other Stories. She also wrote regular columns for The Pansy, the children’s magazine edited by her sister Isabella, and contributed to several books they created together.
After her husband’s death in 1900, Marcia lived with Grace in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She remained there until her death in 1924, leaving behind both her own work and a lasting influence on one of America’s best-known families of Christian writers.