Margaret Sutton Briscoe

Margaret Sutton Briscoe Hopkins (1864 – ) was an American short story writer.

Life and career Margaret Sutton Briscoe was born on December 7, 1864, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of Dr. Samuel W. Briscoe and Cornelia Dushane Blacklock Briscoe. Her extended family owned the Sotterly Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. She was educated by private teachers, as was the custom for women at the time, and later in life regretted not attending college or schooling outside the home.

She began publishing fiction while still in Baltimore, but soon moved to New York City. She published widely, in publications including The Century, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, Harper’s Bazzar, The Outlook, and Scribner's Magazine.

The Hopkinses were world travelers and one trip around 1922 was particularly adventurous. They went to Cairo and Alexandria so Arthur Hopkins could research alchemy; he went on to publish the book Alchemy, Child of Greek Philosophy in 1934. Along the way they were shipwrecked on Lesina Island in the Adriatic and visited Lisbon during a period of armed unrest.

Margaret Sutton Briscoe died on December 16, 1941.