Margaret Penrose was a house

pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...

used by the

Stratemeyer Syndicate The Stratemeyer Syndicate was a publishing company that produced a number of mystery book series for children, including Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others. They published and ...

as the author of three girls' book series published by

Cupples & Leon Cupples & Leon was an American publishing company founded in 1902 by Victor I. Cupples (1864–1941) and Arthur T. Leon (1867–1943). They published juvenile fiction and children's books but are mainly remembered today as the major publi ...

.James Keeline, Margaret Penrose article
/ref> The name Margaret Penrose was used for: * The Dorothy Dale series – 1908 to 1924, 13 volumesJohn Axe, ''All About Collecting Girl’s Series Books'', pages 14 - 15, Hobby House Press, 2002 * The Motor Girls series – 1910 to 1917, 10 volumes * The Radio Girls series – 1922 to 1924, 4 volumes The

Dorothy Dale Dorothy Dale is a girls' book series written by Margaret Penrose, a pseudonym. The Stratemeyer Syndicate produced a total of thirteen of the series' books between the years 1908 and 1924. The books were published by Cupples & Leon. In the first ...

series was ghostwritten by the following authors:

Lilian Garis Lilian C. Garis , born Lilian C. McNamara (20 October 1873 – 19 April 1954) was an American author who wrote hundreds of books of juvenile fiction between around 1915 and the early 1940s. Prior to this, she was the first female reporter for the ...

volumes 1 – 8, 11; W. Bert Foster volumes 9, 10, 12; and Elizabeth Duffield Ward volume 13.

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