Margaret Murray Robertson was a Scottish-Canadian educator and author. Margaret was born in Stuartfield, Scotland, on April 22, 1823, as the daughter of Reverend James Robertson, a Congregational preacher, and Elizabeth Murray. She had a sister, Mary, and three brothers: John, Joseph, and Andrew. Her mother died in 1832, and the religious family moved to Derby, Vermont. Four years later, they moved to Sherbrooke, Quebec. Mary and Margaret attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts. After that, they became educators at the Sherbrooke Ladies' Academy, where Margaret worked until 1865. In 1864, she won the Galt Prize essay competition with her piece "An Essay on Common School Education." Margaret retired from teaching at the age of 42 to pursue a full-time writing career. Her debut novel, Christie Redfern's Troubles, was published in 1866.Throughout her writing career, she authored 14 or more novels till 1890. The majority of the protagonists in her stories were female, with themes of home and family.