Muriel Denison, née Jessie Muriel Goggin (1886–1954), was a Canadian writer.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was educated at Havergal College, Edgehill School, and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). In 1926 she married author and playwright Merrill Denison.

Muriel Denison

Denison is best known as the author of the "Susannah" novels, a series of books set in the years 1896–1900, and featuring Susannah Winston, age 9-13: Susannah of the Mounties, Susannah of the Yukon, Susannah at Boarding School, and Susannah Rides Again. The first book was the inspiration for the Shirley Temple movie of the same name, though the two stories are very different.

Muriel Denison

Denison often wrote nonfiction using the pen name "Frances Newton" for articles in This Week, Reader's Digest, McCall's and other magazines.

Muriel Denison

Denison lived in New York for 20 years before her death, but returned to Toronto to go to hospital and died there.

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The Globe and Mail, 23 September 1954.

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1886 births

1954 deaths

20th-century Canadian novelists

20th-century Canadian women writers

Canadian women novelists

The Royal Conservatory of Music alumni

Writers from Winnipeg

Pseudonymous women writers

20th-century pseudonymous writers