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Margaret Armstrong (1) (1867–1944)

Autor(a) de Fanny Kemble, a Passionate Victorian

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About the Author

Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was born in New York to a wealthy family. She was a prolific book cover designer, and her design work has been the focus of several major exhibits and is widely collected today. She is the author of Fanny Kemble, A Passionate Victorian and Trelawny, A Man's Life as mostrar mais well as three murder mysteries. mostrar menos

Obras por Margaret Armstrong

Associated Works

The Rosary (1909) — Designer da capa, algumas edições180 exemplares
The Blue Flower (1902) — Designer da capa, algumas edições125 exemplares
How to Know the Ferns (1899) — Designer da capa, algumas edições114 exemplares
Tommy and Grizel (1900) — Designer da capa, algumas edições111 exemplares
Sentimental Tommy (1896) — Designer da capa, algumas edições105 exemplares
The Ruling Passion (1901) — Designer da capa, algumas edições61 exemplares
Days Off (1907) — Designer da capa, algumas edições59 exemplares
Pippa Passes (1841) — Artista da capa, algumas edições59 exemplares
The Unknown Quantity (1777) — Designer da capa, algumas edições46 exemplares
Master of the Vineyard (1910) — Designer da capa, algumas edições38 exemplares
A Weaver of Dreams (1911) — Designer da capa, algumas edições38 exemplares
The Man on the Box (1904) — Designer da capa, algumas edições29 exemplares
The Valley of Vision (1919) — Designer da capa, algumas edições27 exemplares
Wanted--a match maker (1902) — Designer da capa, algumas edições23 exemplares
Gordon Keith (1903) — Designer da capa, algumas edições21 exemplares
The old gentleman of the black stock (1897) — Designer da capa, algumas edições20 exemplares
The Sherrods (1902) — Designer da capa, algumas edições18 exemplares
Candle-Lightin' Time (1901) — Designer da capa, algumas edições17 exemplares
Love Finds the Way (1904) — Designer da capa, algumas edições16 exemplares
The golden key : stories of deliverance (1921) — Designer da capa, algumas edições13 exemplares
Unleavened Bread (1900) — Designer da capa, algumas edições13 exemplares
Family Treasury of Great Biographies Volume 10 (1971) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Under the Crust (1907) — Designer da capa, algumas edições10 exemplares
Rose of Old Harpeth (1911) — Designer da capa, algumas edições7 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Armstrong, Margaret Neilson
Data de nascimento
1867-09-24
Data de falecimento
1944-07-18
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Ocupações
illustrator
mystery writer
biographer
Relações
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish (brother)
Armstrong, Maitland (father)

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Margaret Armstrong was born in New York City to a wealthy family and was among a number of important woman cover designers, beginning her work in the late 1880s. She began her career at A.C. McClurg and then went on to other publishers, primarily Scribner's, for whom she designed half of her total output of about 270 books. Armstrong also specialized in designing many of the works of a few authors including Myrtle Reed, Henry Van Dyke, Paul Bourget, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

On a trip to the US west, she took careful notes on the wild flowers she saw and published them in a field guide. Toward the end of her career, she also authored several mysteries, two biographies -- including Fanny Kemble, A Passionate Victorian (1938) -- and edited her family's papers.

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A classic mystery from the 1930s, quite enjoyable with some surprises. The author, Margaret Armstrong, lived from 1867 to 1944. She was mostly known as an illustrator and designer but she wrote several mysteries in the 30s. She was best known for being the illustrator of a field guide to wildflowers and the designer of book covers. I may be looking for some of her other works.
 
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MMc009 | 1 outra crítica | Jan 30, 2022 |
The body of a local glass artist is discovered while Miss Harriet Trumbull is staying with her friend Charlotte Blair at Bassett's Bridge. Her interest is piqued and she starts to investigate.
An enjoyable mystery, original written in 1939.
 
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Vesper1931 | 1 outra crítica | Jul 29, 2021 |
This is classic 1930's biography that, while not as scholarly as modern works breathes life into the story. It is based heavily on Trelawney's (a charasmatic braggart and truth-stretcher) autobiography. Clearly, Armstrong admired him. I loved the man as well after reading this. This is a fascinating almost unbelievable biography about Edward Trelawny. As a family the Trelawnys were always courageous, adventurous, full of vitality, eccentric, unreliable, prone to extremes - and Edward was true to the tradition. While still a very young man, sailing in he Indian Ocean under the French flag, he captured a pirate town in Madagascar. He rescued the daughter of an Arab sheik and married her, only to lose her by poisoning. He told her a story in his famous "Adventures of a Younger son."

In Italy, Trelawny's friendship with Shelley ripened into the greatest experience of his life. After Shelley's tragic death, it was Trelawny who undertook the burning of his body on the beach near Via Reggio.

Fighting, with Byron, for the freedom of Greece; living in a cave on Mount Atlas with a Greek chieftain' visiting America, where he bought a slave in order to set him free - these were some of the other highlights of his career. Hardy and handsome to the last, he died at eighty-one, and at his request his ashes were buried beside those of Shelley in Rome. Ardent alike in friendship, passion, and love of freedom, Edward Trelawny lived a life of almost incredible adventure. And his biographer brings out all of his dramatic color. Exciting reading.
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Alhickey1 | Feb 25, 2020 |
Owned by Lou G. Diven, Dec. 20, 1915
 
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Obras
6
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Membros
250
Popularidade
#91,401
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
4
ISBN
25
Línguas
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