Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947

LC control no.	n 82112115
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR9199.3.S248
Personal name heading	Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Saunders, Margaret Marshall, 1861-1947
Located	Halifax (N.S.)
Birth date	1861-05-13
Death date	1947-02-15
Place of birth	Milton (N.S.)
Place of death	Toronto (Ont.)
Field of activity	Animal welfare Children's stories Romance fiction
Affiliation	Order of the British Empire
Profession or occupation	Authors
Found in	Beautiful Joe, [1893]: title page (by Marshall Saunders, author of My Spanish sailor) The king of the park, [1897]: title page (by Marshall Saunders, author of Beautiful Joe, Charles and his lamb, For the other boy's sake, etc.) Tilda Jane, [2008]: title page (by Margaret Marshall Saunders) Canadian encyclopedia online, viewed 1 November 2016: Saunders, Margaret Marshall (Margaret Marshall Saunders; writer; b at Milton, NS 13 Apr 1861; d at Toronto 15 Feb 1947; moved with her family to Halifax at age 6; at 15 she attended boarding school in Edinburgh, then studied French at Orléans; taught school for a short time; first novel was published in 1889; wrote Beautiful Joe, about an abused dog, for an American Humane Society competition, winning the prize and becoming the first Canadian book to sell more than a million copies; moved to Toronto in 1914; travelled widely in the U.S., setting her stories in places she visited) Wikipedia, viewed 1 November 2016: Margaret Marshall Saunders (Margaret Marshall Saunders, CBE; born May 13, 1861 in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia; died February 15, 1947 in Toronto, Ontario; prolific Canadian writer of children's stories and romance novels, a lecturer, and an animal rights advocate; in 1934, awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire) Amicus database, 1 November 2016 (authorized access point: Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947; variant access point: Saunders, Margaret Marshall, 1861-1947)