Margaret Deland

Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 - January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes.

Life

Greywood, Margaret Deland's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine

She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (today a part of Pittsburgh). In 1880, she married Lorin F. Deland, and the couple moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Over a four year span, they took in and supported unmarried mothers; it was at this period she began to write. Her poetry collection The Old Garden was published in 1886. Deland received a Litt.D. from Bates College in 1920.

She is known principally for the novel John Ward, Preacher (1888), and her 'Old Chester' books, based on her early memories of Maple Grove and Manchester, Pittsburgh communities where she grew up. She resided in Boston at 76 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, while maintaining a summer home, Greywood, overlooking the Kennebunk River in Kennebunkport, Maine.^[1]

Deland died in Boston at the Hotel Sheraton, where she then lived, in 1945.^[2]

Published books

Poetry

• The Old Garden and other verses (1886) (Google Books e-text)

Novels

• John Ward, Preacher (1888) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[3]) (Google Books e-text)
• Sidney (1890) (Google Books e-text)
• The Story of a Child (1892) (Google Books e-text)
• Philip and His Wife (1894) (Google Books e-text)
• Dr. Lavendar's People (1903) (Google Books e-text)
• The Awakening of Helena Richie (1906) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[4]) (Google Books e-text)
• The Way to Peace (1910) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[5]) (Google Books e-text)
• The Iron Woman (novel) (1911) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[6]) (Google Books e-text)
• The Voice (1912) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[7]) (Google Books e-text)
• Partners (1913) (Google Books e-text)
• The Hands of Esau (1914)
• The Rising Tide (1916) (Google Books e-text)
• Small Things (1919)
• The Promises of Alice (1919) (Google Books e-text)
• An Old Chester Secret (1920) (Google Books e-text)
• The Vehement Flame (1922) (Project Gutenberg Entry:^[8]) (Google Books e-text)
• The Kays (1926)
• Captain Archer's Daughter (1932)

Short story collections

• Mr. Tommy Dove, and other stories (Google Books e-text) (1893)
• The Wisdom of Fools (1897) (Google Books e-text)
• Old Chester Tales (1898) (Google Books e-text)
• The Common Way (1904) (Google Books e-text)
• R.J.'s Mother and some Other People (1908) (Google Books e-text)
• Around Old Chester (1915) (Google Books e-text)
• Small Things (1919)
• New Friends in Old Chester (1924)
• Old Chester Days (1935)

Autobiography

• If This be I, as I Suppose it Be (1935)
• Golden Yesterdays (1941)

Other nonfiction

• Florida days (1889)

References

1. ^ Burr, Steven (2005). The Kennebunks in Season. Charleston, South Carolina. p. 102. http://books.google.com/books?id=rpnDqQ-VVhIC&lpg=PA102&dq=Margaret%20Deland%20Greywood%20purchased%20in&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
2. ^ "Margaret Deland, Writer, Dies at 87 (abstract)". The New York Times. January 14, 1945. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00912F73A5C1B7B93C6A8178AD85F418485F9. Retrieved June 1, 2010. 
3. ^
   • John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg
4. ^
   • The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg
5. ^
   • The Way to Peace by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg
6. ^
   • The Iron Woman by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg
7. ^
   • The Voice by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg
8. ^
   • The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland at Project Gutenberg

External links

• Works by Margaret Deland at Project Gutenberg

Persondata
Name	Deland, Margaret
Alternative names	Campbell, Margaretta Wade (birth name)
Short description	Novelist, short story writer, poet
Date of birth	February 23, 1857
Place of birth	Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death	January 13, 1945
Place of death	Boston, Massachusetts, United States