page_title: Margarita Spalding Gerry
section_title: Writing
hierarchical_section_title: Margarita Spalding Gerry / Career / Writing
caption_attribution_description: English: Page 328, Harper's Magazine, 1908--Extract of illustration from scan of story "The flowers" by Margarita Spalding Gerry. Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green. ["What is it sonny?" asked the florist]
context_page_description: Margarita Spalding Gerry was an American writer of novels and short stories. She also served on the Board of Education in Washington, D.C.
context_section_description: "I started to write stories because I realized that they were marketable products for which I could receive money", Gerry explained to an interviewer in 1917. Novels by Margarita Spalding Gerry include The Toy Shop (1908),  The Masks of Love (1914), The Sound of Water (1914), Philippa's Fortune (1921), Philippa at the Chateau (1922), and Philippa's Experiments (1923). Her serialized The Flowers appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1908, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Similarly, Gerry's As Caesar's Wife appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1911, with illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg, before being published as a volume in 1912. Most of her short stories appeared between 1905 and 1925, in Harper's, though some were instead published in Scribner's and The Smart Set. A collection of her early short stories, Heart and Chart, was published in 1911. Gerry also wrote a non-fiction work, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body Guard to President Lincoln (1910).
caption: An illustration from Gerry's "The Flowers" Harper's Magazine (1908), by Elizabeth Shippen Green
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