Margaret Mackie Morrison

Margaret Mackie Morrison (18 April 1897 – 7 February 1973); known as Peggy Morrison, and the pen name March Cost, was a British novelist. She was one of the six children of Arthur Mackie Morrison and Agnes Brysson Morrison C.B.E., née Inglis.

Hers was a literary family: one brother T. J. Morrison, was a novelist and screenwriter, another brother, John, a novelist and poet; her sister Mary a short‐story writer; and her other sister Nancy Brysson Morrison, a novelist and biographer.

Early life Born in Glasgow, after studying at the Glasgow School of Art, Morrison went on to study drama, and joined the company of Sir Frank and Lady Benson. Ill-health forced her from the stage, and after extensive travel on the continent she began to write. She later resided at Tunbridge Wells, where she died following a long illness.

Works

Cosy Chair Stories – fairytales (as 'Peggy Morrison') The Oldest Wish – short stories A Man Named Luke (1932) The Dark Glass The Dark Star (1939) Rachel: An Interpretation (1949); reprinted as "I, Rachel" (1957) The Bespoken Mile “The Hour Awaits (1952) Invitation From Minerva By the Angel, Islington (In the United States: The Unknown Angel) Her Grace Presents A Woman of Letters The Interpreter The Countess The Year of the Yield After the Festival Jubilee of a Ghost The Veiled Sultan Two guests for Swedenborg A Key to Laurels