Margaret Carver Leighton
Encyclopedia
Margaret Carver Leighton (December 20, 1896- June 19, 1987) was an American children’s author.
. She attended schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts
; France
; and Switzerland
while her father was on sabbatical in those countries. She obtained her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College
in 1918.
On May 5, 1921, Margaret married James Herbert Leighton. They had four children: James Herbert, Mary, Thomas Carver, and Sylvia. Leighton’s husband died in 1935. The family soon moved to California, where she began to write children’s books, inspired by her own children’s antics.
Her most famous work is Shelley's Mary: A Life of Mary Godwin Shelley, published in 1973.
She was a member of the Westfield, New Jersey
Board of Education from 1930-1934, a member of the Santa Monica, California
, Public Library Board of Trustees, the Authors League of America, and P.E.N., serving as president at the Los Angeles center from 1957-1959.
Margaret Carver Leighton died on June 19, 1987, in Santa Monica, California
.
Education
Leighton was born in Oberlin, OhioOberlin, Ohio
Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, to the south and west of Cleveland. Oberlin is perhaps best known for being the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students...
. She attended schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
; France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
; and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
while her father was on sabbatical in those countries. She obtained her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
in 1918.
On May 5, 1921, Margaret married James Herbert Leighton. They had four children: James Herbert, Mary, Thomas Carver, and Sylvia. Leighton’s husband died in 1935. The family soon moved to California, where she began to write children’s books, inspired by her own children’s antics.
Her most famous work is Shelley's Mary: A Life of Mary Godwin Shelley, published in 1973.
She was a member of the Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield is a town in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 30,316. The old village area, now the downtown district, was settled in 1720 as part of the Elizabethtown Tract....
Board of Education from 1930-1934, a member of the Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
, Public Library Board of Trustees, the Authors League of America, and P.E.N., serving as president at the Los Angeles center from 1957-1959.
Margaret Carver Leighton died on June 19, 1987, in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
.
Works
- Junior High School Plays: Ten Short Plays on the American Epic (1938)
- The Secret of the Old House (1941)
- Twelve Bright Trumpets (1942, published in England as The Conqueror, and Other Tales from the Middle Ages )
- The Secret of the Closed Gate (1944)
- The Singing Cave (1945)
- Judith of France (1948)
- The Sword and the Compass: The Far-Flung Adventures of Captain John Smith (1951)
- The Secret of Bucky Moran (1952)
- The Story of Florence Nightingale (1952)
- The Story of General Custer (1954)
- Who Rides By? (1955)
- Comanche of the Seventh (1957)
- The Secret of Smuggler's Cove (1959)
- Journey for a Princess (1960)
- Bride of Glory: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1962)
- Voyage to Coromandel (1965)
- The Canyon Castaways (1966)
- A Hole in the Hedge (1968)
- Cleopatra, Sister of the Moon (1969)
- The Other Island (1971)
- Shelley's Mary: A Life of Mary Godwin Shelley (1973)