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Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858, inMontrose, Iowa – December 12, 1923, inWashington, D.C.) was an American educator, biologist, and author of many children's books on nature and biology.[1]
Morley grew up inBrooklyn. She studied atState University of New York at Oswego andHunter College.[1] She continued her biology education at the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago and at theWoods Hole marine laboratory in Massachusetts.[1][2] She worked as a teacher and was considered an expert in agriculture andbeekeeping.[3] She was most well known for her work as an illustrator, photographer, and author of books on nature.[1][3]
As early as 1890 she visitedTryon, North Carolina with the painterAmelia Watson where she resided in the cottage of playwrightWilliam Gillette. She finally acquired her own home in Tryon where she lived for many years.[citation needed]
In one of her many trips she went to Europe to theVal Gardena the valley of toy carvers where she was inspired to write the novelDonkey John of the toy valley.[citation needed]
A collection of Morley's work is held at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center inHartford, Connecticut. The collection consists of travel logs and sketchbooks of rural North Carolina, and book manuscripts.[4]
The North Carolina Museum of History owns a collection of original photographs that Morley donated to the museum in 1914.[3]
Morley died on December 12, 1923.[3]
Drawings by Morley from the originalVal Gardena toys fromDonkey John of the Toy Valley:[citation needed]
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