Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947

found: Beautiful Joe, [1893]:title page (by Marshall Saunders, author of My Spanish sailor)

found: 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.)

found: 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)

found: 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)

found: Amicus database, 1 November 2016(authorized access point: Saunders, Marshall, 1861-1947; variant access point: Saunders, Margaret Marshall, 1861-1947)