Margaret Prescott Montague

Margaret Prescott (or Preston) Montague (29 November 1878 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia – 26 September 1955, Richmond, Virginia) was an American short story writer, and novelist.[1] Her middle name is sometimes attributed as Preston before changing to Prescott.[2]

Her work appeared in Harper's among other places.[3]

Her novels were adapted into the films Linda (1929), Calvert's Valley (1922), Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge (1920) and Seeds of Vengeance (1920).[4]

Awards

Works

  • Deep channel. Atlantic Monthly Press.
  • The Sowing of Alderson Cree. The Baker & Taylor company. 1907.
  • In Calvert's Valley. The Baker & Taylor Company. 1908. (reprint. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-548-25964-1. )
  • Closed doors: studies of deaf and blind children. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1915.
  • Of water and the Spirit. E.P. Dutton & Company. 1916.
  • "On Authors". Atlantic classics. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1918.
  • Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920.
  • England to America. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920.
  • Up Eel River. The Macmillan company. 1928.

Stories

  • "The Will to Go". The Atlantic monthly. 127. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1921.
  • "Why It Was W-On-The-Eyes". The Atlantic monthly. 111. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1913.
  • Charles Swain Thomas, ed. (1918). "Of Water and the Spirit". Atlantic narratives: modern short stories. The Atlantic Monthly Press.
  • "England to America". O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919. BiblioBazaar, LLC. 2008. ISBN 978-0-554-33436-3.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fairmontstate.edu/wvfolklife/literarymap/a_montague_m.shtml
  2. ↑ See Atlantic Classics (1st edition) compare with Atlantic Classics (2nd edition).
  3. ↑ http://www.harpers.org/subjects/MargaretPrescottMontague
  4. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598780/
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