Margaret Strickland (writer)
Margaret Strickland (c. 1880–1970) was an English writer of magazine stories and novels for adults and children, including the ''Michael Gerahty'' detective novels. Her works and papers have been collected by New York University's Fales Library. Family Strickland was a great niece of the famous literary Strickland sisters. Her grandfather, Thomas Strickland, was the youngest brother of Agnes Strickland, Agnes, Jane Strickland, Jane and Elizabeth Strickland, and Catharine Parr Traill, Catherine Traill. Agnes was the best known of the family and is remembered for her work ''The Lives of the Queens of England (1840–48)''. Strickland suggests that Thomas was viewed as the black sheep of the family. He is barely mentioned in either of the biographies of Agnes Strickland. Several of Thomas' siblings, including Catherine and another brother, Samuel, migrated to Canada, where Catherine wrote a number of books and novels, and Samuel founded the city of Lakeside. Strickland had two siste ...
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the non-denominational all-male institution began its first classes near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education. The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus in Greenwich Village surrounding Washington Square Park. Since then, the university has added an engineering school in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center and graduate schools throughout Manhattan. NYU has become the largest private university in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students, including 26,733 undergraduate students and 25,115 graduate students, in 2019. NYU also receives the most applications of any private institution in the United States and admission is considered highly selective. NYU is organized int ...
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