Margaret Neilson Armstrong

Margaret Neilson Armstrong (September 24, 1867 – July 18, 1944) was an American book cover designer, illustrator, and author. Noteworthy as the designer of more than 300 book covers, she also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west (omitting flowers found only in the Rocky Mountains). She was the author of two popular biographies and three mystery novels. Quotes ... In such strange homes as the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest National Park Petrified Forest of Arizona, or the deserts of Utah and southern California, we find the oddest desert plants, forced to curious expedients in order to sustain life amidst almost perpetual heat and drought, but often displaying blossoms of such brilliance and delicacy that they might well be envied by their more fortunate sisters, flourishing beside shady waterfalls, in a "happy valley" like Yosemite National Park Yosemite, or a splendid mountain garden, such as spreads in many-colored parterres of bloom around the feet of Mount Rainier Mt. Rainier. On the wind-swept plains hundreds of flowers are to be found; many kinds of hardy plants brighten the salty margins of the sea cliffs, or bloom at the edge of the snow on rocky mountain peaks, while quantities of humble, everyday flowers border our country roadsides or tint the hills and meadows with lavish color. Preface iii–v Field Book of Western Wild Flowers C. P. Putnam's Sons 1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=LhUlAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 (quote from p. iii; illustrations by Margaret N. Armstrong; written in collaboration with John James Thornber; text for 1915 1st edition) It was a time when fashion was permitted to walk hand in hand with piety. All the fashionable accomplishments were taught by experts at Reading Abbey Girls' School#Hans Place, London and Frances Arabella Rowden Mrs. Rowden's. Fanny's contralto voice was well trained. She acquired enough Italian to read 'Inferno (Dante) Inferno,' a little Latin, even a little Greek language Greek. Her Parisian accent soon became the envy of the other English girls ... Fanny Kemble, a Passionate Victorian Macmillan 1938 33 1st part of quote; last part of quote ... the months that followed Edward John Trelawny Trelawny's Edward John Trelawny#Third marriage departure from Usk must have been dreary enough. Fortunately, his new book—the one thing that had made the last year bearable—still provided some distraction for his thoughts. Edward John Trelawny#Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron had just been published by Edward Moxon Moxon. There were reviews to be read, copies must be sent to old friends. He had taken great pains with the looks of his "bantling" and was satisfied. Trelawny: A Man's Life Macmillan 1940 358 1st part of quote; last part of quote; Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron Cambridge University Press 2011 https://books.google.com/books/about/Recollections_of_the_Last_Days_of_Shelle.html?id=O0G4C9USaUEC (pbk reprint of 1858 1st edition); text of 1858 edition at archive.org External links Category:1867 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Biographers from the United States Category:Illustrators Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Novelists from New York City Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 19th century