Margarita Spalding Gerry

Margarita Spalding Gerry (July 28, 1870 — 1939) was an American writer of novels and short stories.

[2] "I started to write stories because I realized that they were marketable products for which I could receive money", Gerry explained to an interviewer in 1917.

Similarly, Gerry's As Caesar's Wife appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1911, with illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, before being published as a volume in 1912.

Gerry also wrote a non-fiction work, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body Guard to President Lincoln (1910).

As a self-described progressive member of the board, she testified before a Senate committee in 1920 about a teacher accused of "bolshevism".

Margarita Spalding Gerry, from a 1913 publication.
Margarita Spalding Gerry, from a 1917 publication.
An illustration from Gerry's "The Flowers" Harper's Magazine (1908), by Elizabeth Shippen Green