Muriel Denison
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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.
Denison is best-known as the author of the "Susannah" series of books targeted to the teenage market and younger. Centered on a lead character named Susannah Sheldon, the books served as vehicles for the Shirley Temple movies, Susannah of the Yukon, Susannah of the Mounties, Susannah of the Boarding School, and Susannah Rides Again.
Denison often wrote using the pen name Frances Newton for articles in This Week, Reader's Digest, McCall's and other magazines.
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- The Globe and Mail, 23 September 1954.
