Margaret Wilson

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Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (January 16, 1882 – September 6, 1973) was an American novelist.

The Able McLaughlins was a recipient of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize.

Early years and education

Wilson, a native of Traer, Iowa, grew up on a farm and attended the University of Chicago, receiving degrees in 1903 and 1904.

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Career

She became a missionary in the United Presbyterian Church of North America's service after completing her education. When she was sent to India's Punjab region, she worked at a girls' school and in a hospital. She returned to the United States in 1910 due to sickness and resigned from her post as a missionary in 1916. She attended the University of Chicago's divinity school from 1912-13. She taught at West Pullman High School for five years. She was concerned for her elderly father throughout the years and published her short stories in a number of magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly.

The secondary importance of women and the role of faith were among the themes found in her books. Her name was unknown when she won a $2,000 reward offered by Harper & Brothers in 1923 because she had signed her short stories in Harper's Magazine "An Elderly Spinster." Her research is of concern in part because it investigates feminist questions in a domestic context set against a backdrop of an unbridled judicial system. "She portrayed herself as the most Middle Western of Middle Westerners" and said that "she wrote for women readers from a woman's point of view. Two of her books are based on her travels in India. "She managed to convert her more painful experiences into a moving and enjoyable story more than a decade since her return to the country." The Daughters of India explores the world of polygamy and Trousers of Taffeta, focusing on a woman's desire to produce a male heir.

In 1923, she married George Douglas Turner, a Scot who had met in India nineteen years earlier, after which she remained in England. Turner, a tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford, was a tutor. He later served as the warden of Dartmoor Prisoner. Penal reform influenced her non-fiction book The Crime of Punishment (1931) and two novels, The Dark Wife (1933), both "melodramatic romances set within the conceptual and historical difficulties of prison administration and reform." She wrote another book for children, The Devon Treasure Secret (1939), in which two girls and four boys become amateur detectives and look for a long lost treasure in addition to her eight adult books.

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"She has an admirable gift for a very clear story, and her theme has always been emphasized in terms of human beings," Graham Greene wrote in a book about human beings.

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