Margaret Lloyd (dance critic)

Margaret Lloyd (née Thayer; 1887–March 1, 1960) was an American dance critic in the field of modern dance. Lloyd was one of the first full-time modern dance critics for an American newspaper, covering dance for The Christian Science Monitor from 1936 until her death in 1960. Her 1949 review of the field of modern dance, The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance, remains an important work, and has been reprinted into the 21st century. Lloyd lived in Massachusetts her whole life, and covered dance performances across the Northeastern United States.