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                            Introduction
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Margaret Warner Morley (February 17, 1858, in Montrose, Iowa -
December 12, 1923, in Washington, D.C.) was an American educator,
biologist, and author of many children's books on nature and biology.


                             Biography
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Morley grew up in Brooklyn. She studied at State University of New
York at Oswego and Hunter College. She continued her biology education
at the Armour Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in
Chicago and at the Woods Hole marine laboratory in Massachusetts. She
worked as a teacher and was considered an expert in agriculture and
beekeeping. She was most well known for her work as an illustrator,
photographer, and author of books on nature.

As early as 1890 she visited Tryon, North Carolina with the painter
Amelia Watson where she resided in the cottage of playwright William
Gillette. She finally acquired her own home in Tryon where she lived
for many years.

In one of her many trips she went to Europe to the Val Gardena the
valley of toy carvers where she was inspired to write the novel
'Donkey John of the toy valley'.

A collection of Morley's work is held at the Harriet Beecher Stowe
Center in Hartford, Connecticut. The collection consists of travel
logs and sketchbooks of rural North Carolina, and book manuscripts.

The North Carolina Museum of History owns a collection of original
photographs that Morley donated to the museum in 1914.

Morley died on December 12, 1923.


                              Drawings
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Drawings by Morley from the original Val Gardena toys from  'Donkey
John of the Toy Valley':


Image:Drawing of Val Gardena toy by Margaret Warner Morley.jpg
Image:Val Gardena stick doll by Margaret Warner Morley.jpg
Image:Drawing of Val Gardena toys by Margaret Warner Morley.jpg


                              Writings
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* Iris art, A Song of Life 'Song of Life' 1891
* 'Physical culture' 1893
* 'Flowers and Their Friends' 1897
* 'A few familiar flowers: how to love them at home or in school' 1897
* 'Seed babies' 1898
* 'Little Wanderers' 1899
* 'The Honey Makers' 1899
* 'Down north and up along' 1900
* 'Wasps and their ways' 1901
* 'Insect Folk' 1903
* 'Little Mitchell, the Story of a Mountain Squirrel' 1904
* 'The Renewal of Life: How and When to Tell the Story to the Young'
1906
* 'Donkey John of the toy valley'. Chicago A. C. McClurg & Co.
1909
* 'Grasshopper Land' 1910
* 'The Carolina Mountains', Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (1913)
* 'Will o' the wasps' 1913
* 'The Bee People' 1914
* 'the Apple-Tree Sprite' 1915


                           External links
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* [http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/collections/ Margaret
Warner Morley Collection] at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center


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