Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (February 22, 1838–1912) was an American
poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.
and Margaret Chisholm of New York
. Her father was in the marble industry in New York City. Margaret and her younger sister Isabell grew up in a very religious household and the two sisters were well educated.
and Helen Keller
. Other than Harper’s Bazaar, she contributed to Ladies' Home Journal
, Hearth and Home, and the Christian Intelligencer, The Christian Union (later became The Outlook), The Congregationalist and The Christian Herald.
Among Sangster's prose works are several volumes of stories for children, and of these, Little Jamie was written when she was seventeen years old. Hours with Girls and Winsome Womanhood were her most popular works. Her volumes of poetry include, Poems of the Household, Home Fairies and Heart Flowers, On the Road Home and Easter Bells. Sangster grew up a devout member of the Dutch Reformed Church
and wrote many hymns and sacred texts. These include a setting of the Te Deum Laudamus and a hymn called, Thine is the Power, which gained a fair degree of popularity in its time.
In 1902 Sangster wrote the introduction to the book, Happenings in Our Home, illustrated by LJ Bridgman, published by Joseph Clark Bridgman, Boston. Hard cover book where a family can write out the important events in their lives: weddings, vacations, Thanksgiving, etc.
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poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Childhood
Sangster was the daughter of John Munson of IrelandIreland
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and Margaret Chisholm of New York
New York
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. Her father was in the marble industry in New York City. Margaret and her younger sister Isabell grew up in a very religious household and the two sisters were well educated.
Career
Sangster held editorial positions with a number of periodicals including, Hearth and Home, The Christian at Work, Harper's Young People and eventually became an editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1889 to 1899. Through her work she became acquainted with notable people of her age, including Mark TwainMark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
and Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree....
. Other than Harper’s Bazaar, she contributed to Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine which first appeared on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States...
, Hearth and Home, and the Christian Intelligencer, The Christian Union (later became The Outlook), The Congregationalist and The Christian Herald.
Among Sangster's prose works are several volumes of stories for children, and of these, Little Jamie was written when she was seventeen years old. Hours with Girls and Winsome Womanhood were her most popular works. Her volumes of poetry include, Poems of the Household, Home Fairies and Heart Flowers, On the Road Home and Easter Bells. Sangster grew up a devout member of the Dutch Reformed Church
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
and wrote many hymns and sacred texts. These include a setting of the Te Deum Laudamus and a hymn called, Thine is the Power, which gained a fair degree of popularity in its time.
In 1902 Sangster wrote the introduction to the book, Happenings in Our Home, illustrated by LJ Bridgman, published by Joseph Clark Bridgman, Boston. Hard cover book where a family can write out the important events in their lives: weddings, vacations, Thanksgiving, etc.
Personal life
Sangster spent most of her life in New York and New Jersey. She married George Sangster in 1858 and essentially gave up writing until after his death in 1871. She never remarried and she died in 1912. Her nephew, Charles Chisholm Brainerd, was married to the author Eleanor Hoyt BrainerdEleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd was an American author of the early 20th century. She published at least 10 novels, mostly written for young women.- Childhood :...
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Works
- Little Knights and Ladies (1895) Harper & Brothers
- Village Life in America, 1852–1872, including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl by Caroline Cowles Richards
- An Experience
- From My Youth Up
- Winsome Womanhood; Familiar Talks on Life and Conduct
- Fairest Girlhood
- The Women of the Bible: A Portrait Gallery
- Cheerful To-days and Trustful To-morrows
- The Little Kingdom of Home
- Radiant Motherhood; A Book for the Twentieth Century Mother
- The Art of Being Agreeable
- Vacation Time
Further reading
- Margaret E. Sangster, From My Youth Up: Personal Reminiscences. Second Edition. (1909, New York).
- http://www.historyswomen.com/thearts/MargaretESangster.html
External links
- Finding Aid for the Margaret E. Sangster Papers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster: Poems a collection of poetry