Margaret Nelson
Actress

Margaret Nelson Net Worth

Margaret Nelson was born on September 24, 1867 and is an actress known for her roles in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Lost Islands (1976) and Homicide (1964). She has had a long and successful career in the entertainment industry.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day September 24, 1867
Age 152 YEARS OLD
Died On July 18, 1944(1944-07-18) (aged 76)\nNew York, New York, United States
Occupation Author Illustrator Book cover designer
Years active 1890-1941
Known for American trade binding designs

💰 Net worth

Margaret Nelson, a renowned actress born in 1867, is speculated to have an estimated net worth ranging between $100,000 and $1 million by the year 2024. With a career that has spanned over several decades, Nelson has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide with her exceptional talent and captivating performances on the big screen. As an actress, she has undoubtedly earned substantial wealth and recognition, becoming an influential figure in the entertainment industry throughout her long and illustrious career.

Biography/Timeline

1867

Margaret Neilson Armstrong was born on September 24, 1867, in New York City, the daughter of American diplomat and stained glass Artist Maitland Armstrong and his wife Helen, who was a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant and a niece of Hamilton Fish. Her six siblings included Helen Maitland Armstrong (1869–1948), who followed in her father's footsteps to become a stained glass Artist, and Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a magazine Editor.

1880

She began her career as a designer in the 1880s, working initially for A.C. McClurg and later for other publishers as well. She designed more than 270 book covers and book bindings, about half of which were for Scribner’s. She worked in the Art Nouveau style and favored plant-related motifs, bold colors, gold stamping, and often slightly asymmetrical designs—an unusual combination that helped to distinguish her among her peers. Authors for whom she designed several covers include Frances Hodgson Burnett, Florence L. Barclay, George Washington Cable, Charles Dickens, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry van Dyke, and Myrtle Reed. She has been called "the most productive and accomplished American book designer of the 1890s and early 1900s", and her work is often compared to that of her contemporary Alice Cordelia Morse.

1895

Her monogram appears on many covers after 1895; it is a simple 'MA' in upper case with the 'M' slightly overlapping the 'A'.

1913

Armstrong cut back on book cover design around 1913 as dust jackets began to come into fashion and turned to writing her own books. (Her signature style was so successful, however, that publishers then hired artists specifically to imitate her look.) An avid naturalist, Armstrong's passion for natural forms reflected her interest in botany and in particular, in wildflowers. During the 1911-1914 period, she traveled and camped throughout the Western United States and Canada, becoming one of the first women to reach the bottom of the Grand Canyon. She discovered there several species of flowers that had not yet been identified by botanists. She details those and many other species in her Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). With its 550 illustrations (48 of which were in color), her Field Book is considered the first comprehensive guide on the subject. In her sixties and seventies, she wrote three critically praised mystery novels—Murder in Stained Glass (1939), The Man with No Face (1940), and The Blue Santo Murder Mystery (1941)—and two biographies, Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian (1938) and Trelawny: A Man's Life (1940). She also completed her father's memoirs.

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