Margaret Deland

Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Life
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.

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.

Deland died in Boston at the Hotel Sheraton, where she then lived, in 1945.

Writing
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 also wrote an autobiography in two volumes.

Recognition
Deland received a Litt.D. from Bates College in 1920.

Poetry

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

Novels

 * John Ward, Preacher (1888) (Project Gutenberg Entry: ) (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: ) (Google Books e-text)
 * The Way to Peace (1910) (Project Gutenberg Entry: ) (Google Books e-text)
 * The Iron Woman (novel) (1911) (Project Gutenberg Entry: ) (Google Books e-text)
 * The Voice (1912) (Project Gutenberg Entry: ) (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: ) (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)