Briscoe, Margaret Sutton (1864-1941)
 | Margaret Sutton Briscoe was born in Baltimore in 1864 and was an honorary member of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore. She was educated by private tutor, regretting that she never attended college. She wrote prolifically for a variety of publications in New York, including Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Monthly, but after meeting Arthur Hopkins and marrying him in 1895, the couple moved to Amherst, MA, where he became a chemistry professor at Amherst College. The Hopkins had one daughter, Cornelia Dushane Hopkins. Margaret Sutton Briscoe also taught at Amherst and served as a student counselor, belonged to the Ladies of Amherst Club, the Amherst School Alliance, and the Amherst Civic League. She traveled the world, opposed suffrage, identified as a southern woman, and knew Mark Twain. She was a prolific author of short stories and novels, many of which were published in various magazines published by the Harper and Brothers publishing house and later collected in book form. Briscoe died in 1941. |
"Ned" (Overland Monthly, Feb. 1891); short fiction
"The Tramp Problem in Baltimore" (Christian Union, 1892); nonfiction.
Open Question (Harpers Weekly, 1892); fiction.
"An I.O.U." (Scribner's Sept. 1893)
Links in a Chain (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1893); novel. full text
"Becalmed" (Outlook Aug. 1893); short fiction
"A Chalk-line" (Outlook, 1893); short fiction.
"An I.O.U." (Scribner's Magazine, Aug. 1893); drama.
"A New England Graveyard" (Outlook Sept. 1893); essay.
Perchance to Dream, and Other Stories (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1893); fiction. full text
"A Goose-chase" (Harpers New Monthly, 1896); short fiction.
"An Entomological Wooing" (Harper's, Mar. 1897); essay.
"Princess I-Would-I-Wot-Not" (Harpers New Monthly, 1897); short fiction.
"Baby Goes to Sleepy Town" (Outlook May 1897)
"Salt of the Earth" (Outlook Aug. 1897); short fiction
"The Quarter Loaf" (Harper's Nov. 1897); short fiction.
"The Garret" (Outlook, Aug. 1894); essay.
"The Cellar" (Outlook, Oct. 1894); essay.
"A Kitchen" (Outlook, Nov. 1894); essay.
"Counting the Cost--Suffrage," Harper's Bazaar, Aug. 24, 1895.
Jimty, and Others (Harper & Brothers, 1898); fiction. full text
"His Nomination" (Harper's, Feb. 1899)
"Of Her Own Household" (Harper's Monthly Mar. 1899)
"Matilda's Address Book" (Harper's Monthly July 1899)
"The Animation of Beck Ann" (Harper's Bazaar, Dec. 9, 1899)
Sixth Sense, and Other Stories (Harper & Brothers, 1899); fiction. full text
"Mother of the Coming Race" (Harper's Bazar, Dec. 8, 1900)
"Cuban Cactus" (Harper's Monthly Feb. 1900)
"His Old Love" (Harper's Monthly Aug. 1900)
"Whither Thou Goest" (Harper's Monthly Jan. 1902)
"Oscar and Louise" (Scribner's, Oct. 1901)
This Mortal Coil (Harpers Weekly, 1899); fiction.
The Change of Heart: Six Lovely Stories (Harper & Bros., 1903); fiction. full text
"His Opportunity" (Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1903)
"His Prerogative" (Harper's Monthly, July 1903)
"The Little Still" (Outlook, Apr. 2, 1904)
"The Matriculation of Courtney" (Harper's Monthly, Feb. 1904)
"In Loco Parentis" (Harper's Monthly, Mar. 1904)
"His Bad Half-Hour" (Harper's Weekly, Nov. 5, 1904)
"To Understand" (Harper's Monthly, Feb. 1905)
"The Debt of Honor" (Everybody's, Jan. 1907)
"Made in Heaven" (Harpers Monthly, Sept. 1907)
"The Sporting Chance" (Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 1908)
"His Mother-at-Heart" (Ladies' Home Journal, Dec. 1908)
"The Girl that Peter Brought" (Ladies' Home Journal, Mar. 1909)
"The Secret" (Harper's Weekly, Aug. 21, 1909)
The Image of Eve: A Romance with Alleviation (Harper & Brothers, 1909); fiction. full text
Annie Tousey's Little Game (Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 1895); fiction.
Harper's Book of Little Plays (NY: Harper & Bros., 1910)
"The Hospitalized Child" (Good Housekeeping, Nov. 1910)