Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1857–1945)
Author of The Awakening of Helena Richie
About the Author
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Works by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Where the laborers are few 3 copies
New Friends in Old Chester 3 copies
Good for the soul 3 copies
The promises of Alice 2 copies
Golden yesterdays 2 copies
R.J.'s Mother & Some Other People 2 copies
A Summer day 1 copy
The common way 1 copy
The hands of Esau 1 copy
The hands of esau 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Deland, Margaretta Wade (married)
Campbell, Margaretta Wade (born) - Other names
- Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
- Birthdate
- 1857-02-23
- Date of death
- 1945-01-13
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Bates College (Litt. D)
Cooper Union - Occupations
- novelist
poet
short story writer
social reformer - Organizations
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1926)
- Awards and honors
- Legion of Honor of France (for relief efforts during World War I)
- Short biography
- She was born in Allegheny (now North Side of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania. In 1880 she married Lorin F. Deland, Harvard football coach. 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, Pennsylvania. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Manchester, Pennsylvania, USA
Maple Grove, Pennsylvania, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Place of death
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Pennsylvania, USA
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- Works
- 37
- Also by
- 6
- Members
- 226
- Popularity
- #99,469
- Rating
- 2.7
- ISBNs
- 77
