Treasure Valley

MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller, 1876-1961Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 442K words
Chapters: 45

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Treasure Valley by Mary Esther Miller MacGregorAuthor: MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller, 1876-1961,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Jun 3, 2009

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MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller, 1876-1961 Author

Mary Esther Miller MacGregor (1876-1961) was an English-language writer active from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Public information about her life and nationality is limited, and ten of her works are currently held in the collection. She is best known for retelling classical tales for children, including Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children; Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children; and Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children, which adapt heroic epics, ballads, and Arthurian legends into narratives accessible to young readers. She also wrote the biography The Black-Bearded Barbarian: The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa, as well as novels with a rural flavour such as Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro and In Orchard Glen. Her clear, plain style and emphasis on readability and moral meaning gave her a modest place in children's literature and popular history.