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Pemberton Ginther
1869–1959
Better known by the pen name Pemberton Ginther, this Philadelphia-born writer brought an artist’s eye to her fiction for girls. She was also a painter, illustrator, and stained-glass designer, which helps explain the vivid, visual feel of her books.
2 Audiobooks
Miss Pat at School
by Pemberton Ginther
Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge
by Pemberton Ginther
About the author
Born in Philadelphia in 1869, Mary Pemberton Ginther wrote under the name Pemberton Ginther and built a career that crossed both art and literature. Reliable sources describe her as a painter, illustrator, and novelist, and note that she studied in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at what is now Moore College of Art and Design.
Her creative life was broad. She worked in oils, pastels, and charcoal, exhibited with Philadelphia art organizations, and designed stained-glass windows for churches in Philadelphia and Suffolk, Virginia. The same visual sensibility carried into her books for young readers, which included The Jade Necklace, Bethanne, and the Betsy Hale, Miss Pat, and Hilda series.
Some sources identify Pemberton Ginther as the pen name of Mary Pemberton Heyler. She died in 1959, and her work is still remembered for combining storytelling with the perspective of a working artist.