Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971).

From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073

Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life in New England. A respected and popular writer with an international audience, her analytical tenderness and the moral dilemmas of her characters inspired her audience to think as they read.

From the description of Margaret Deland letters and manuscripts, 1898-1908. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50699185

From the description of Margaret Deland letter to E.C. Stedman, ca. 1890-1899. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49890778

Novelist and poet. Margaretta Wade Campbell married Lorin F. Deland in 1880. While she and her husband began providing a refuge for unmarried mothers, Campbell began to write, publishing her first book, The Old Garden and Other Verses, in 1886. She wrote nine novels, several short-story collections, and a two-volume autobiography.

From the description of [Letter] 1921 Aug. 27, Kennebunkport, Maine [to] Caroline Munro, Santa Monica, Calif. (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 69950174

From the description of [Letter] 1922 May 20, Kennebunkport, Maine [to] Caroline Munro, Santa Monica, Calif. (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 69951649

Margaret Deland, born in Allegheny, Pa. in 1857, had a long and prosperous writing career that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her cousin, Madeleine Wade Poindexter, also born and raised in Allegheny, lived in Los Angelas, California as a adult.

From the description of Papers 1890-1925. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 32228681

Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1857-1945) was an American writer of poetry, short stories and novels. Deland was immensely popular during her own lifetime, a popularity that was born with the publication of her first novel, John Ward, preacher (1888), and continued throughout her lengthy writing career. A member of Boston's intellectual circuit, Deland was also interested in issues of the period such as spiritualism and the rights of women. During the first World War, Deland participated in the relief effort in France for which she was awarded the Legion of Honor cross. Deland's last major work was her autobiography, Golden yesterdays, which she published in 1941 at the age of eighty-four.

From the description of Correspondence of Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, 1890-1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122443687

Deland was an American author best know for her tales of "Old Chester" grouped about the character "Dr. Lavendar."

From the description of Papers : of Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, 1888-1945. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 86147705

Author of popular novels and short stories and one of the first women elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

From the description of Margaret Wade Campbell Deland letters, 1932. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 27302633

American author.

From the description of Letter to Julia Neely Finch [manuscript], 1913 July 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647842013

From the description of Letter to Richard Watson Gilder [manuscript], 1889 February 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647862173

Author.

From the description of Papers of Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, 1926-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82229826

1857, Feb. 28. Born, Allegheny, Pa.

1880. Married Lorin Deland.

1926. First woman elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

From the description of [Correspondence] / Margaret Deland. [1930?]-1932. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 9627702