Her parents were originally from Scotland but relocated in 1873 to Bombay, where her father, a Sanskritist, took a professorship at Elphinstone College.
A short biographical article, published in the June 1926 issue of The Bookman, recounts Peterson’s resolve "never to shirk work, or to wait for inspirations that do not come, but simply to sit down to it for so many hours a day and write something.
Once he recovered, he accepted a position as a colonial civil servant in Uganda, where he and Peterson—who continued to write under her maiden name and the pseudonym, Glint Green—relocated.
[citation needed] Margaret Peterson died 28 December 1933, at The Old School House in Rudgwick, Sussex.
[7] Her novel Dust of Desire was made into the 1923 film The Song of Love, directed by Frances Marion.