Background
Mary Esther MacGregor was born on August 27, 1872, in Rugby, Ontario, Canada. She was a daughter of John Miller, a schoolteacher, and Mary (Mclan) Miller.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In 1896, Mary received her teacher's certificate from Toronto Normal School.
(This is the story of a race of brave and hardy Northmen, ...)
This is the story of a race of brave and hardy Northmen, who became sea-rovers, because the rights and the freedom, which their fathers had cherished, were being taken from them.
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1908
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In the "Stories of Siegfried", "Siegfried" is the central character in this legend, skillfully adapted from the Nibelung, an old German poem, full of strange adventures of tiny dwarves and stalwart mortals. In this retelling of the ancient legend, Siegfried wins the accursed Rhineland treasure, takes Kriemhild as bride and comes to an untimely end, passing the curse of the Rhinegold on to his enemies.
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1908
(This work contains stories from the history of ancient Gr...)
This work contains stories from the history of ancient Greece, beginning with mythical and legendary stories of gods and heroes and ending with the conquests of Alexander the Great. The work also gives short accounts of battles and sieges, and of the men, who made Greece a great nation.
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1914
(A novel about the Hudson's Bay Company, which was founded...)
A novel about the Hudson's Bay Company, which was founded in 1670 and originally called The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay.
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1924
Mary Esther MacGregor was born on August 27, 1872, in Rugby, Ontario, Canada. She was a daughter of John Miller, a schoolteacher, and Mary (Mclan) Miller.
In her early years, Mary attended school in Edgar, Ontario, as well as the Orillia Collegiate Institute. In 1896, she received her teacher's certificate from Toronto Normal School.
In 1899, Mary started her career as a teacher in Orillia, where she remained for seven years. In 1905, MacGregor began writing. Early in her career as a writer, she contributed a column to Teacher's Monthly and then worked on the editorial staff of the Presbyterian Church's Sunday School Publications.
After 1909, when she married Donald C. MacGregor, a Presbyterian minister, Mary traveled several times to places in central Ontario to support her husband's ministerial career. The couple lived in London, Ontario, for a long time and it was there, where Mary wrote seven of her novels. Morever, during her time in London, she established a Sunday school for girls, entitled "Marian Keith Club".
In her lifetime, Mary also formed a group with Lucy Maud Montgomery and Nellie McClung as contributors to the revival of Canadian writing by women.
(In the "Stories of Siegfried", "Siegfried" is the central...)
1908(This work contains stories from the history of ancient Gr...)
1914(This is the story of a race of brave and hardy Northmen, ...)
1908(A novel about the Hudson's Bay Company, which was founded...)
1924In many of her works, Mary tried to describe the connection between religious thought and social conscience in order to improve life for the poor and uneducated. She also wrote about tensions between Scottish and Irish settlers and the impacts of education and urbanization on rural society.
In 1909, Mary married Donald C. MacGregor, a Presbyterian minister.