Margaret Peterson was a popular English novelist. She also wrote under the pseudonym Glint Green. In 1913, she won the 250-guinea Melrose prize for her first novel The Lure of the Little Drum. She also wrote Blind Eyes (1914), Tony Bellew (1914), Just Because (1915), The Love of Navarre (1915), To Love (1915), The Women's Message(1915), Butterfly Wings (1916), Fate and the Watcher (1917), Love's Burden (1918), The Death Drum (1919), Moon Mountains (1920), Love is Enough (1921), Dust of Desire (1922), The First Stone (1923), Deadly Nightshade (1924), The Pitiful Rebellion (1925), Pamela and Her Lion Man (1926), The Feet of Death (1927), Like a Rose (1928), The Thing That Cannot be Named (1929), Dear, Lovely One (1930), Fatal Shadows (1931), Poor Delights (1932), Twice Broken (1933) and Death in Goblin Waters (1934).
She was also a poet whose verse had appeared in The Sphere

The Sphere (newspaper)

The Sphere was a British newspaper, published weekly from 27 January 1900 until the closure of the paper on 27 June 1964; the first issue came out at the height of the Boer War and was no doubt a product of that conflict and the public appetite for images...

and elsewhere and had earned a reputation for eccentricity by habitually dressing in medieval clothes.

External links

Margaret Peterson: The Lure of the Little Drum http://www.archive.org/details/lureoflittledrum00peteiala