Margaret Widdemer (1884–1978)
Author of The Rose-Garden Husband
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Works by Margaret Widdemer
Prince in buckskin;: A story of Joseph Brant at Lake George (Winston adventure books) (1952) 14 copies
Red Cloak Flying 7 copies
Lover's Alibi 4 copies
Winona of Camp Karonya 4 copies
Cross Currents 3 copies
Graven image 3 copies
Let Me Have Wings 3 copies
Marriage is possible 3 copies
She knew three brothers 2 copies
The Truth About Lovers 2 copies
This Isn't the End 2 copies
All the king's horses 1 copy
The Years of Love (1933) 1 copy
More than wife 1 copy
Constancia herself 1 copy
Laughing Helen 1 copy
Ladies go masked 1 copy
Hand on her shoulder 1 copy
The other lovers 1 copy
Rhinestones, a romance 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1884-09-30
- Date of death
- 1978-07-14
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA - Education
- Drexel Institute Library School
- Occupations
- poet
novelist
children's book author
memoirist - Short biography
- Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. She graduated from the Drexel Institute Library School in 1909. She began to write as a child and first came to public attention with her collection of poems The Factories, with Other Lyrics (1915), which addressed the issues of child labor and labor abuses. In 1919, she married Robert Haven Schauffler, a cellist and author. Her other published collections of poetry included The Old Road to Paradise (1918), which shared the 1919 Columbia University Prize -- now known as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry -- with Carl Sandburg’s Cornhuskers. She also wrote essays, reviews, short stories, children's fiction, and more than 30 novels for adult readers. Her memoirs Golden Friends I Had (1964) and Summers at the Colony (1964) describe her friendships with other writers such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. She served as vice president of the Poetry Society of America and appeared on NBC Radio in a series of talks called "Do You Want to Write?"
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- Works
- 58
- Also by
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- Members
- 279
- Popularity
- #83,281
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 49
A young woman named Phyllis, who is quite on her own, works in a library. She's grateful for the job, and it's a pretty decent job, but she still feels the daily grind and regrets that her future seems to stretch, unending, with no change or rest in sight. In a moment of dissatisfaction, she wishes for a rose-garden, a husband, and enough money. It's not so much that she's thinking about being in love, it's just that in her world, a husband seems the only way for a poor working class girl to get the rose-garden and the money.
And, voila! All of the above are suddenly within reach, and what happens from there on out makes for a splendid, touching story. She's a great character, and so are the DeGuenthers (the agents of her sudden good fortune), and so is Allan. You can guess who Allan is.… (more)