Margaret's parents were Frederick William Kinsinger and Lillian Anna Richter from Ohio. Margaret graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School and the school of the Los Angeles Public Library. She received a bachelor's degree in 1917 from Stanford University and later earned a Ph.D from Stanford. Her Master's Thesis was "Irony in Shakespeare." She was a teacher at the University of Arkansas. She wrote poetry successfully enough to win prizes and have her work published in magazines and anthologies. She wrote for such magazines as "Poetry World" and "The Poet." Margaret knew that a career and family life were either-or options for women of the early twentieth century. Margaret chose instead to have "children of the mind." Margaret suffered from psychological issues then seemed to develop early onset dementia. She was declared "incompetent" in 1952 and spent several years in a state mental institution in Sacramento. She was released by 1960 and was lucid enough to write to her brother in 1962. Her cause of death was cerebral arteriosclerosis which lead to dementia for the last five years of her life. The main cause of death was cerebral thrombosis- a stroke caused by a blood clot. Margaret is the sister of Charles Richter the inventor of the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes in the past.
Margaret's parents were Frederick William Kinsinger and Lillian Anna Richter from Ohio. Margaret graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School and the school of the Los Angeles Public Library. She received a bachelor's degree in 1917 from Stanford University and later earned a Ph.D from Stanford. Her Master's Thesis was "Irony in Shakespeare." She was a teacher at the University of Arkansas. She wrote poetry successfully enough to win prizes and have her work published in magazines and anthologies. She wrote for such magazines as "Poetry World" and "The Poet." Margaret knew that a career and family life were either-or options for women of the early twentieth century. Margaret chose instead to have "children of the mind." Margaret suffered from psychological issues then seemed to develop early onset dementia. She was declared "incompetent" in 1952 and spent several years in a state mental institution in Sacramento. She was released by 1960 and was lucid enough to write to her brother in 1962. Her cause of death was cerebral arteriosclerosis which lead to dementia for the last five years of her life. The main cause of death was cerebral thrombosis- a stroke caused by a blood clot. Margaret is the sister of Charles Richter the inventor of the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes in the past.
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