Marguerite Audoux, née Marguerite Donquichotte est une romancière française, née le 7 juillet 1863 à Sancoins (Cher) et morte le 31 janvier 1937 à Saint-Raphaël (Var). Elle est connue pour son roman Marie-Claire, qui reçoit le prix Fémina en 1910 et qui donne son nom au magazine féminin Marie Claire créé en 1937.
Marguerite Henry was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. One of the latter, Misty of Chincoteague (1947), was the basis for several related titles and the 1961 movie Misty.
Marguerite Merington was an English-born American author of short stories, essays, dramatic works, and biographies. For several years, she taught in Greek and Latin at the Normal College in New York before pursuing a career as an author.
Maria Dąbrowska z domu Szumska – polska powieściopisarka, eseistka, dramatopisarka, tłumaczka dzieł literatury duńskiej, angielskiej i rosyjskiej; jedna z najważniejszych polskich powieściopisarek XX wieku, autorka tetralogii powieściowej Noce i dnie (1931–1934), za którą była nominowana do Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury w 1939, 1957, 1959, 1960 i 1965.
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel in which she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.
Maria Elizabeth Budden, was a novelist, translator and writer of didactic children's books, who frequently signed her work "M. E. B." or "A Mother". Her True Stories... series of history books for young people remained popular for many years. Little has come to light about Budden's life.
Maria Stanisława Konopnicka z domu Wasiłowska, krypt. i ps. „M. K.”, „K.”, „Ko-mar”, „Jan Sawa”, „Marko”, „Jan Waręż”, „Humanus”, „Ursus”, „Mruczysław Pazurek” – polska poetka i nowelistka okresu pozytywizmu, krytyczka literacka, publicystka i tłumaczka; jedna z najwybitniejszych pisarek w historii literatury polskiej.
