Margaret Cameron

[from review in The Boston Globe, Sat. Oct 30, 1909].

Romance and Travel Combined.

Margaret Cameron's new novel, "The Involuntary Chaperon," is refreshingly unconventional in theme and treatment, and happily accomplishes the difficult task of combining stirring romance with graphic description of foreign travel. The story is told in the form of letters written to a woman friend by a young widow who makes a trip to South America to chaperon a 17-year-old girl sent away out of reach of an "ineligible" suitor. The girl's bachelor uncle accompanies them, and very soon the chaperon has a love affair of her own to attend to, more than one in fact, for the bachelor uncle is not alone in his appreciation of the charming widow. The young girl also becomes entangled in several unlooked for romances, and the resulting complications, skilfully developed and delightfully entertaining, hold the eager interest of the reader. It is not only a capital story but also a work of literary distinction, and it well worth reading.