Margaret Cameron (author)

Margaret Cameron
Born(1867-12-21)December 21, 1867
Ottawa, Illinois, U.S.
DiedFebruary 4, 1947(1947-02-04) (aged 79)
Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Occupation
  • musician
  • author
Genre
  • novels
  • short stories
  • plays
  • non-fiction
Subjectmysticism
Notable works
  • The Involuntary Chaperon
  • The Seven Purposes
Spouse
  • Harrison Cass Lewis
    (m. 1903; died 1926)
  • Maxwell Alexander Kilvert
    (m. 1929)

Margaret Cameron (after first marriage, Lewis; after second marriage, Kilvert; December 21, 1867 – February 4, 1947) was an American musician and author. Most of Cameron's writing was humorous. May Lamberton Becker, outlining in the New York Evening Post a course of study in American humor, mentioned Margaret Cameron as one of the three women humorists thus far produced by this country. Cameron wrote several one-act plays for amateurs, all in a vein of light, satirical comedy; many short stories, summarized by one critic as “delicious bits of fooling, developed with an absurd solemnity that is captivating”; two books of travel in actionized form, one of which, The Involuntary Chaperon, was considered to be the first South American travel book published in the U.S.;[1] and a novel, Johndover, in which was presented a image of Santa Barbara, California during the last years of a romantic period. The Seven Purposes was the first book written in the U.S. concerning psychic phenomena to have a large circulation.[2]

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  2. ^ "LEWIS, MARGARET CAMERON". The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... Vol. 2. Halvord Publishing Company. 1925. pp. 75–79. Retrieved November 6, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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