About the author

Margaret Penrose is an English-language author known for children's and young-adult fiction; reliable details of her life are limited, and her nationality and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Based only on the holdings in this catalog, twenty-two works appear under her name, mainly girls' adventure and coming-of-age stories, including The Campfire Girls of Roselawn, the Motor Girls series and the Dorothy Dale series. Her plots often center on girls' friendships, camping, coastal and boating trips, motoring outings and city life, and typically turn on a mysterious message, a hidden object or an unexpected stranger. The style is brisk and accessible, suited to young readers, and reflects the early twentieth-century taste for adventure, independence and companionship in girls' fiction.

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Publishers

Project Gutenberg