Miriam Macgregor
1912- 2001
Miriam MacGregor wrote several romances for Mills & Boon and Harlequin in the 1980's and 1990's. Her stories are mostly set in New Zealand.
She also wrote several well regarded non fiction books about New Zealand.
Mrs Macgregor was married twice. Rachel McAlpine states in The Passionate Pen that Mrs Macgregor moved to England in the 1990s to live with a daughter.
added information from The Passionate Pen, the back cover of Petticoat Pioneers & National Library New Zealand.
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