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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Margaret Hosmer (1830–1897)

Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret (Kerr). An American novelist and writer for the young; born in Philadelphia, 1830; died at Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1897. Her home was in San Francisco, where she taught school, and in Philadelphia. She wrote the novels: ‘The Morrisons’ (1864); ‘Rich and Poor’ (1870); ‘The Sin of the Father’ (1872), etc.; the juveniles, ‘Blanche Gilroy’ (1871); ‘A Rough Boy’s Story’ (1873); and also, ‘Ten Years of a Lifetime.’