Margaret Moyes Black

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Pen name M.B. Fife Nationality Scottish		Name Margaret Black Role Novelist
Born 27 April 1853Scoonie, Fife, Scotland, UK ( 1853-04-27 ) Occupation Writer, novelist, biographer, botanist Genre Non-fiction, novels, biography, botany Died October 16, 1935, Montrose, United Kingdom Books Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time, Robert Louis Stevenson

Margaret Moyes Black (1853–1935) was a Scottish novelist and biographer. She was born on 27 April 1853 in the parish of Scoonie, Fife. Her father was William Black, a shipmaster,and her mother was Margaret Moyes Deas. She wrote her first novel, In Glenoran, under the pseudonym of M.B. Fife. She was unmarried and died on 16 October 1935 at Montrose, Angus.

Publications

In Glenoran. [A Novel.] Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1888 (pseudonym).

Tempted: An Episode. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1889.

Between the Ferries. A Story of Highland Life. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1890

Disinherited. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1891

A Woman and Pitiful. A Deeside Story. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1893

The Ghost of Gairn. A Tale of "The Forty-Five.". Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1894

The House of Cargill. A Tale of the Smuggling Days. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1895.

A Most Provoking Girl. A Tale of the East Coast, etc. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, [1896.]

Facts and Fancies about Flowers. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1897. Series: Science Talks to Young Thinkers

Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, Aug 1898, ("Famous Scots Series")

References

Margaret Moyes Black Wikipedia

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