Marguerite Merington

Marguerite Merington
Newspaper drawing of Merington in the Cheyenne County Rustler, 1896
Born1857
Stoke Newington, England
Died (aged 94)
New York City
OccupationAuthor

Marguerite Merington (1857 – May 20, 1951) was an English-born American author of short stories, essays, dramatic works, and biographies. Born in England and raised in New York, she taught Greek and Latin at the Normal College in New York before establishing herself as a successful playwright and librettist, best known for her popular play Captain Lettarblair (1892). Over the course of her career, she wrote additional dramatic works, edited the correspondence of George A. Custer and Elizabeth Bacon Custer, and lived primarily in New York State.


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